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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

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

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

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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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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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

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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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HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

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

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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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Appetite, a universal wolf.

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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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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

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