Monday, 23 February 2015

Can you live without dining?

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 civilised man cannot live without cooks.

He may live without books, - what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope, -  what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love, - what is passion but pining?
But where is the man who can live without dining?

Edward Robert Bulwer 
Earl of Lytton 1860

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