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

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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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

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The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

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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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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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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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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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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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

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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

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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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For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

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It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

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