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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

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

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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

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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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Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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

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An army marches on its stomach.

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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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There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

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