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" We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge... "
The University of Texas Record - Page 109
1900
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Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean : Life and ...

Albert Deane Richardson - 1869 - 664 pages
...to dining as dining to existence ? 'We may live without poetry, music, and art; We may live withont conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without...without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooka He may live withont books— what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope — what...
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The Young Ladies' Treasure Book: A Complete Cyclopædia of Practical ...

1870 - 956 pages
...has something nice to eat" And what does a certain poet say on the great subject of gastronomy ? " We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may...books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books — what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope — what is...
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Choice Receipts: Selected from the Best Manuscript Authorities

1873 - 92 pages
...MANUSCBIPT AUTHORITIES, "And there 'e the extract flasked and fine, and priced, And salable at last.11 "We may live without poetry, music, and art; We may...books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. — He may live without hooks,— what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,— what...
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Beyond the West: Containing an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Other ...

George W. Pine - 1873 - 534 pages
...neighbors of the outer and inner world, the newspaper. "We may live without poetry, music or books , We may live without conscience, and live without heart...books, But civilized man cannot live without cooks." We cross the head of the Umatela River Valley, whose head-waters and southern tributaries flow though...
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Eccentric ...

1874 - 674 pages
...classmates : CYRUS POTTER, HOWARD DCANE and BEXJAMIX Dow. DELTA '76. r ECCENTRIC. Familiar Quotations. " We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may...friends, we may live without books ; But civilized men can not live without cooks." — EATING CLUBS. "Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit." — VN ATT-....
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Wide Awake, Volume 23

1886 - 500 pages
...threw back his head and delivered into the upper air a certain well-known passage from Owen Meredith. We may live without poetry, music and art; We may...books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. " Bravo ! '' cried Flagler, laughing heartily. Then he announced the results of his excursion. " I've...
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The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith (Robert, Lord Lytton)

Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - 1875 - 430 pages
...pain ; and trouble, remorseless, his best ease, As the Furies once troubled the sleep of Orestes. XIX. We may live without poetry, music, and art; We may...books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what...
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Wives and housewives

Mary Hooper (writer on cookery.) - 1875 - 120 pages
...a song," laughed Edward, " I will reply by a quotation from Lucile very much to the purpose : — ' We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may...without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilised man cannot live without cooks. We may live without books — what is knowledge but grieving?...
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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Vermont Dairymen's Association for the ...

Vermont Dairymen's Association - 1891 - 1226 pages
...shall not live by bread alone," but the modern poet comes with the statement (which I fear is too true) "We may live without poetry, music and art, We may...books, But civilized man cannot live without cooks." It should be the pleasure of the wife to look well to the culinary department of the home. It should be...
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Literary curiosities and eccentricities, in prose and verse, ed. by W.A ...

Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...Unless they conspire To sing to the tune of his pipe. Wit's Recreation, 1650. THE ONE THING NEEDFUL. WE may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may...friends, we may live without books, — But civilized men cannot live without cooks. He may live without books— what is knowledge but grieving ? He may...
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