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 To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
 [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]  
 To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
 [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.] 
 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye 
shall eat, or what ye shall read more 
 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye 
shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye 
shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more 
than raiment? 
 Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a 
great deal of tablecloth.  
 Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a 
great deal of tablecloth. 
A dinner lubricates business.
A dinner lubricates business.
 Man is a carnivorous production,
 And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
  He cannot read more 
 Man is a carnivorous production,
 And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
  He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,
   But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey;
    Although his anatomical construction
     Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
      Your laboring people think beyond all question,
       Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. 
 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. 
 This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest 
men.  
 This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest 
men. 
 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.] 
 Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he 
does not dine at all, read more 
 Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he 
does not dine at all, except when invited out.