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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourma

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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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. – Elbert Hubbard

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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. – Elbert Hubbard

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One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man. – George Fordyce

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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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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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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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