"A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body."

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"A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body."

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

George Orwell, British Author

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"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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

Woody Allen, American Director

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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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"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."

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"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."

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"We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness."

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"Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow."

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"It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy."

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"Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions."

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"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical."

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"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved."

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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

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"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."

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"It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance."

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