The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed,

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit. – St Frances de Sales

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Come, come! Let us go to breakfast. The morning air has given me a rude appetite. I long to say grace over a fresh egg… – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, A Romance, “The Evening and the Morning St

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