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title: "1 Civic Life Quotes By Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin"
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> [Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/cooking-is-one-of-the-oldest-arts-and-one-which-has-rendered-us-the/)

[Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/)

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## More by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

> [Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/vegetables-which-are-the-lowest-in-the-scale-of-living-things-are-fed/)

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> [Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/frying-gives-cooks-numerous-ways-of-concealing-what-appeared-the-day/)

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> [Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/animals-feed-themselves-men-eat-but-only-wise-men-know-the-art-of/)

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> [The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/the-senses-are-the-organs-by-which-man-places-himself-in-connexion/)

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> [I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/i-am-not-accustomed-to-take-my-wine-in-pills/)

[Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/)

> [Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/those-persons-who-suffer-from-indigestion-or-who-become-drunk-are/)

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> [Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/sight-and-touch-being-thus-increased-in-capacity-might-belong-to-some/)

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> [In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/in-the-centre-of-a-spacious-table-rose-a-pastry-as-large-as-a-church/)

[Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/)

> [Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/burgundy-makes-you-think-of-silly-things-bordeaux-makes-you-talk/)

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> [Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/gourmandise-is-an-impassioned-rational-and-habitual-preference-for/)

[Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/)

> [An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/an-intelligently-planned-feast-is-like-a-summing-up-of-the-whole/)

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> [To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/to-claim-that-wines-should-not-be-changed-is-a-heresy-the-palate/)

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> [The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/the-pleasures-of-the-table-belong-to-all-times-and-ages-to-every/)

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> [If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/if-any-man-has-drunk-a-little-too-deeply-from-the-cup-of-physical/)

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> [The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/the-spanish-ladies-of-the-new-world-are-madly-addicted-to-chocolate/)

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