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Quote by Joseph Addison
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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. – Joseph Addison

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I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country – Joseph Addison

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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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The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy. – Jean Baudrillard

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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. – Josh Billings

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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well. – Elbert Hubbard

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