"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
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"The last taste of sweets is sweetest last."
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"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance."
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"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."
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"Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters."
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"Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken."
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"I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon."
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"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time."
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"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."
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"your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."
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"My favorite animal is steak."
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"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."
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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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"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."
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"A party without cake is really just a meeting."
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"I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America."
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"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients."
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"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
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"I love you like a fat kid loves cake!"
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"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after."
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