“ Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Memory like a purse, — if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. God's residence is next to mine, His furniture is love. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. ”
- Citium Zeno- Copy
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“ Greediness of getting more, deprives… the enjoyment of what it had got. ”
- Thomas Sprat- Copy
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“ Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Pride either finds a desert, or makes one; submission cannot tame its ferocity, nor satiety fill its voracity, and it requires very costly food — its keeper's happiness. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness and rapacity. ”
- Charles Evans Hughes- Copy
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“ This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. ”
- Thomas Wolfe- Copy
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“ Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
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“ In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. ”
- Italo Calvino- Copy
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“ Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. ”
- Peter De Vries- Copy
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