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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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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

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

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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

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In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

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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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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

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

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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

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

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The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

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

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