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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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

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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

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

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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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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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Appetite, a universal wolf.

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OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

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The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

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

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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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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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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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