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The oyster is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not the letter R in their name. – Richard Buttes, Diet’s Dry Dinner (1599)

He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating of oysters. – Thomas Fuller, History of Worthies of England (1662) — often mistakenly attributed to Jonathon Swift