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Appetite, a universal wolf.

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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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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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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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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

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A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

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Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

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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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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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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 genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

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

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

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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

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