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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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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. – Joseph Addison

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. – Joseph Addison

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Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. – Proverb

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Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out. – Cyril Connolly

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