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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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FOOD

Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but afer all, the Scotchman would shake his head, and say, "Where's your haggis?" and the Fijan would sigh and say, "Where's your missionary?"
- A Tramp Abroad

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.
- Progress in Medicine speech, 1902

Aunt Jemima ad
Ad from Ladies Home Journal, December 1925 for
Aunt Jemima pancake flour.
From the Dave Thomson collection.

Only strangers eat tamarinds--but they only eat them once.
- Roughing It

Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.
- Roughing It

 

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