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No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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

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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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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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PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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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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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 human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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

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And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

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Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

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

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

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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