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hard-working mechanics. We do not play 

 cards or smoke while we drink chocolate, 

 and after it we take no brandy ; we drink, 

 perhaps, a glass of cold water, and go 

 peaceably back to our work or to look after 

 our affairs. 



" The well-known proverb, ' People are 

 known by the company they keep,' would 

 lose none of its force if altered to read : 

 4 Tell me what you eat and drink, and I 

 will tell you who you are/ Breakfast, 

 especially, is the characteristic repast, 

 which gives the surest indications as to the 

 morality of civilized men. The man who 

 eats a substantial meat breakfast, and fol- 

 lows it up with coffee and liquors, may 

 certainly be a very honest man, but he is 

 not a temperate man, and one might wager 

 that after such a repast he will do very- 

 little. Be assured, on the contrary, that 

 he who breakfasts on milk, coffee, or choco- 

 late has few physical wants ; that his sen- 

 suality, if he be sensual, is mild and 



