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Soup rejoices the stomach, and disposes it to receive and digest other food.—Brillat Savarin.
To work the head, temperance must be carried into the diet.—Beecher.
To fare well implies the partaking of such food as does not disagree with body or mind. Hence only those fare well who live temperately.—Socrates.
The aliments to which the cook's art gives a liquid or semi-liquid form, are in general more digestible.—Dictionaire de Medicine.
In the most heroic days of the Grecian army, their food was the plain and simple produce of the soil. When the public games of ancient Greece were first instituted, the athleta, in accordance with the common dietetic habits of the people, were trained entirely on vegetable food.
The eating of much flesh fills us with a multitude of evil diseases and multitudes of evil desires.—Perphyrises, 233 A.D.
No flocks that range the valley free
To slaughter I condemn;
Taught by the Power that pities me,
I learn to pity them.
But from the mountain's grassy side
A guiltless feast I bring;
A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied
And water from the spring.
—Goldsmith.
