"LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites."

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"LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites."

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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

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"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor."

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"Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are."

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"Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil."

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