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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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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, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'

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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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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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

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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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

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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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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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

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

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He receives comfort like cold porridge.

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