Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin on food

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• Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

  Mark Twain1835–1910

• You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

  Ronald Reagan1911–2004

• I’m at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.

  Rodney Dangerfield1921–2004

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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