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Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.
Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.
 Epicurean cooks
 Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,
  That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honor
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 Epicurean cooks
 Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,
  That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honor
   Evan till a Lethe'd dulness-- 
 The sweetest honey
 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.  
 The sweetest honey
 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness. 
 Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
 By bare imagination of a feast?  
 Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
 By bare imagination of a feast? 
 And gazed around them to the left and right
 With the prophetic eye of appetite.  
 And gazed around them to the left and right
 With the prophetic eye of appetite. 
 "Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs 
with drinking."
 [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, read more 
 "Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs 
with drinking."
 [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la 
soif e'en va en beuvant."] 
 Read o'er this
 And after, this, and then to breakfast with
  What appetite you have.  
 Read o'er this
 And after, this, and then to breakfast with
  What appetite you have. 
 Who riseth from a feast
 With that keen appetite that he sits down?  
 Who riseth from a feast
 With that keen appetite that he sits down? 
A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times
A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times