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There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse tha

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. – G.K. Chesterton

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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. – G.K. Chesterton

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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. – Thomas Paine

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