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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

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Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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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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God made only water, but man made wine.

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

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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

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The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

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