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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how read more
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
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.
They that die by famine die by inches.
They that die by famine die by inches.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Bone and Skin, two millers thin,
Would starve us all, or near it;
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Bone and Skin, two millers thin,
Would starve us all, or near it;
But be it known to Skin and Bone
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.
"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."
Hunger that persuades to evil.
[Lat., Malesuada fames.]
Hunger that persuades to evil.
[Lat., Malesuada fames.]
Oliver Twist has asked for more.
Oliver Twist has asked for more.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A hungry man is not a free man.