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food
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Kissing don’t last: cookery do!
George Meredith (1828-1909) English novelist and poet
The Ordeal of Richard Feveral, ch. 24 (1859)
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Go, eat your bread in gladness, and drink your wine in joy.
The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Ecclesiastes 9:7 [JPS (1985)]
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Alternate translations:
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart.
[KJV (1611)]
Go, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a glad heart.
[JB (1966)]
Go ahead -- eat your food and be happy; drink your wine and be cheerful.
[GNT (1976)]
Go, eat your bread with enjoyment and drink your wine with a merry heart.
[NRSV (1989 ed.)]