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

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Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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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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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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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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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

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EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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

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The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

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

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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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Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

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