Oliver Twist has asked for more.

Oliver Twist has asked for more.

A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's
wife may starve for hunger.

A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's
wife may starve for hunger.

So hungry I could eat a horse

So hungry I could eat a horse

There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

A hungry man is not a free man.

A hungry man is not a free man.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear
to them except in the form of bread.

Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]

Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]

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.

I suspect that hunger was my mother.
[Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]

I suspect that hunger was my mother.
[Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]