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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. The appetite comes during a meal. A person who does not travel thinks that their mother's cooking is the best.