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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

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

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God made only water, but man made wine.

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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

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We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

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

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

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HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

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An army marches on its stomach.

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It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

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And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

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No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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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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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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