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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Charles Dickens
Food, Human Nature, Abstinence
Nicholas Nickleby ch. 5 (1839)

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Morning, Food
Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Edition”, p.423, ReadHowYouWant.com

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

Charles Dickens
Art, Block, Food
Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

Charles Dickens
Food, Cooking, Ceilings
Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.41

There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

Charles Dickens
Coffee, Food, Wine
Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.349

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

Charles Dickens
Food, Doors, Smell
Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.54, Penguin

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