"So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being."
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"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
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"The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy."
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"Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both."
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"I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you."
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"Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili."
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"It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer."
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"My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order."
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"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."
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"To a man with an empty stomach food is God"
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."
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"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
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"Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?"
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"It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it."
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"I live on good soup, not on fine words."
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"What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!"
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"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."
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"Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment."
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"Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish."
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