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"Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household."
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"A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear."
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"It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life."
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"A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it."
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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."
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"I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding."
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
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"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
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"After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated."
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"Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."
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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
Art

"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."
Life

"The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
Society

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
Help

"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
Philosophy

"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
Force

"The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
Society

"The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass."
Art

"I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it."
Morality
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