When I eat pork at a meal, give me the WHOLE pig; when mutton, the WHOLE sheep; when goose, the WHOLE of the bird.

Two dishes are better than a thousand, provided that one can eat of them as much as one wants." And he proceeded to put precept into practice by taking half the shoulder of mutton on to his plate, and then devouring it down to the last morsel of gristle and bone.
"My word!" reflected Chichikov.

"The fellow has a pretty good holding capacity!" "None of it for me," repeated Sobakevitch as he wiped his hands on his napkin.

"I don't intend to be like a fellow named Plushkin, who owns eight hundred souls, yet dines worse than does my shepherd." "Who is Plushkin ?" asked Chichikov.
"A miser," replied Sobakevitch.

"Such a miser as never you could imagine.