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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. – Benjamin Franklin

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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. – Goethe

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We face the question whether a still higher “standard of living” is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. – Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949

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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Luxury… corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. – Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

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They that deny a God destroy mans nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. – Francis Bacon

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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. – George S. Patton

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Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. – Greta Garbo

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Nature remembers every injury but forgives by going on. – Terri Guillemets, “Hatchets, Shoetread, Storms, & Disdain,” 2007

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