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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

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

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

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

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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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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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