...the lower those which, like eating and drinking, prompt to the maintenance and reproduction of life, and which can be impaired or destroyed by prolongation...capacity for enjoyment or usefulness of any sort. Under or9 dinary circumstances it is by no means a purely bodily pleasure. We do not eat alone, but in families,...

...the lower, those which, like eating and drinking, prompt to the maintenance and reproduction of life, and which can be impaired or destroyed by prolongation...of friends and comrades; and the table is the best centre of friendships and of the domestic affections. When, therefore, a workingman says that he has...

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...drink is a great enjoyment for 7 healthy people, and those who do not enjoy eat*n^ se^om kave mucn capacity for enjoyment or usefulness of any sort....of friends and comrades; and the table is the best centre of friendships and of the domestic affections. When, therefore, a workingman says that he has...

...pleasures of the eye or ear, seem to be ends in themselves. In the lower there can be destructive excess'in the higher excess is impossible. Recognizing, then,...means a purely bodily pleasure. We do not eat alone, [20] but in families, or sets of friends and comrades ; and the table is the best centre of friendships...

...well. Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. —Virginia Woolf —Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband Those who do not enjoy eating seldom have much capacity for enjoyment of any sort. —Charles Willliam Elliott, A Happy Life A good cook is like a sorcerer who dispenses...