"The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]"
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"Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal.""
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"Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are."
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"The Ph.D. system was designed for a job in academics. And it works really well if you really want to be an academic, and the system actually works quite well. So for people who have the gift and like to go spend their lives as scholars, it's fine. But the trouble is that it's become a kind of a meal ticket - you can't get a job if you don't have a Ph.D."
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"If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry."
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"There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment."
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"It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert."
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"My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week."
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"My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread."
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"I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it to your family, it's your gift of energy to them."
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"In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat."
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