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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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. – Joseph Addison

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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. – Joseph Addison

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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

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

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. – Kingsley Amis

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

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