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No wasteful bread and butter , no scandalous cheese , no abominable beef bone , no wretched rabbit , no prodigal potatoes , above all , No immoral ale ! There , Mrs. Iden . Go to the famous Henry Ward Beecher , that shining light and apostle , Mrs. Iden , and read , mark , learn , and inwardly digest what he says : -- `` A man who can not live on bread is not fit to live . A family may live , laugh , love and be happy that eats bread in the morning with good water , and water and good bread at noon , and water and bread at night . '' Does that sound like an echo of the voice that ceased on the Cross ? Guilty Mrs Iden , ignorant farmer 's wife ; hide your beef and ale , your rabbit and potatoes . To duchesses and earlesses , and plump City ladies riding in carriages , and all such who eat and drink five times a day , and have six or eight courses at dinner , doubtless once now and then a meal of vegetable pot-bouilli , or oatmeal porridge , or lentil soup -LRB- three halfpence a pound lentils -RRB- , or haricot beans and water would prove a scientifically wholesome thing .