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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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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

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

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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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To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

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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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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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He receives comfort like cold porridge.

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Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

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

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The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

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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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