"The whole [English] nation, beyond all other mortal men is most given to banquetting and feasts."
— England

January 1, 1970

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Paolo Giovio (d. 1568), Historiarum, Book II. Translation by Robert Burton, Anatomy of a Melancholy, quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 222-25