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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well.".
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well.".
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
