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“The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.”

“A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.”

“This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a concept often shocking to the secular modern Western mind - to people who calmly organize daily hecatombs of beasts, and who are among the most death-dealing carnivores the world has ever seen.”

“All worries are less with wine.”

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”