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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
 The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, 
but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce read more 
 The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, 
but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating? 
 When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil 
drives.)  
 When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil 
drives.) 
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
 For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he 
does of his dinner.  
 For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he 
does of his dinner. 
 This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest 
men.  
 This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest 
men. 
 Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
 [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,
  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]  
 Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
 [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,
  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.] 
 'Tis not her coldness, father,
 That chills my labouring breast;
  It's that confounded cucumber
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 'Tis not her coldness, father,
 That chills my labouring breast;
  It's that confounded cucumber
   I've ate and can't digest. 
 Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible 
for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining read more 
 Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible 
for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next 
to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from 
hunger.