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Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon.
Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon.
 Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is 
called the staff of Life.  
 Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is 
called the staff of Life. 
Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
 If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you 
would eat chickens i' read more 
 If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you 
would eat chickens i' th' shell. 
 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that 
one teach you again which read more 
 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that 
one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles 
of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of 
strong meat.
 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of 
righteousness: for he is a babe.
  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even 
those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern 
both good and evil. 
 We may live without poetry, music and art;
 We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
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 We may live without poetry, music and art;
 We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
  We may live without friends; we may live without books;
   But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
    He may live without books,--what is knowledge but grieving?
     He may live without hope,--what is hope but deceiving?
      He may live without love,--what is passion but pining?
       But where is the man that can live without dining? 
 He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious 
epicure--and for such a tomb might be read more 
 He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious 
epicure--and for such a tomb might be content to die. 
 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the 
fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.  
 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the 
fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. 
 Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
 [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]  
 Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
 [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]