William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Food
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
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Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
- Born: July 18, 1811
- Died: December 24, 1863
- Occupation: Novelist
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