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

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

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We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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