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The serpent did not choose to lure Eve with Vitamin C, of which an apple provides 14 percent of our daily requirements; the pleasure principle can never be left out of the equation.
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Q: What to do if quarrels break out during your dinner party?
A: Send in the clowns, and if your guests speak different languages, hire pantomiming clowns.
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We moderns speak in terms of Vitis vinifera as a single species, and we analyze the chemical properties of wine such that a glass of Château Pétrus and a glass of plonk turn out to be something like 93 percent identical. God is in the 7 percent.
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It is a very few steps from stoic philosophy to Horatian satire.
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The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance