"We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread."
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"It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears."
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"Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue."
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"...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish."
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"Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today."
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"Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime."
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"Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm."
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"Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner."
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"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."
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"I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them."
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"I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food."
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"Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon."
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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 have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend."
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"We never repent of having eaten too little."
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"By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt."
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"On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar."
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"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."
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"First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful."
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"Where do you go to get anorexia?"
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