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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

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The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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An army marches on its stomach.

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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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