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Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not t

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson

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He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. – Henry David Thoreau

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I tell you honestly what I think is the cause of the complicated maladies of the human race: it is their gormandizing and stuffing, and stimulating their digestive organs to an excess, thereby producing nervous disorders and irritation. – John Abernethy (1764–1831)

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. – Voltaire

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Food is an important part of a balanced diet. – Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, “Food for Thought and Vice Versa”

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