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Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
 Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
 [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]  
 Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
 [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.] 
Hunger is the handmaid of genius
Hunger is the handmaid of genius
 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 can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
 A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor 
is bent by any prayers.
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 A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor 
is bent by any prayers.
 [Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla 
prece flectitur, populus esuriens.] 
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that read more
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.