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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; t

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. – Joseph Addison

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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. – Marshall McLuhan

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They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live. – Juvenal

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Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. – Charles Buck

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Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable. – Jackie Gleason

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