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

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

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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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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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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

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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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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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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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Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

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Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

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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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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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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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