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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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

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

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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

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

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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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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

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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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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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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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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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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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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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