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He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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

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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

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

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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

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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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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

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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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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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

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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

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There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

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