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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
 To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
 [Fr., L'abstenir pur jouir, c'est l'epicurisme de la read more 
 To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
 [Fr., L'abstenir pur jouir, c'est l'epicurisme de la raison.] 
 For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things
 The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
  Or as read more 
 For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things
 The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
  Or as the heresies that men do leave
   Are hated most of those they did deceive,
    So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,
     Of all be hated, but the most of me! 
 "Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,--
 It almost makes me wish, I vow,
  To have two stomachs, read more 
 "Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,--
 It almost makes me wish, I vow,
  To have two stomachs, like a cow!"
   And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill
    Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill,
     His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw--
      "I almost that that I could eat one raw." 
 The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause,
 That all the year eats neither partridge not read more 
 The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause,
 That all the year eats neither partridge not quail,
  But sets up his rest and makes up his feast,
   With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale. 
 Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
 [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos read more 
 Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
 [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios salis 
absumpseris.] 
Think of the man who first tried German sausage.
Think of the man who first tried German sausage.
 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. 
 Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. 
Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly read more 
 Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. 
Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. Such 
entertainments as these keep to yourselves, ye pompous; I am ill 
pleased with a supper that walks.