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"Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."
"Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.
It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Hunger that persuades to evil.
[Lat., Malesuada fames.]
Hunger that persuades to evil.
[Lat., Malesuada fames.]
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
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With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
Desire his jewels, and this other's house,
And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
Destroying them for wealth.
If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
Hunger is the handmaid of genius
Hunger is the handmaid of genius
