"The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak."
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"Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary."
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"In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality."
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"Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table."
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"The French don't know how to cook breakfast."
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"I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s."
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"I say to people, keep it simple. If you want to change your food, change your breakfast."
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"Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast."
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"Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences."
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"Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete."
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"Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have."
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"O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery."
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"I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead."
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"I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories."
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"At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup."
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"I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous."
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"We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime."
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"Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M."
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"I am going to have one Klitschko for breakfast and one Klitschko for lunch."
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"...fry me an optimist for breakfast."
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