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“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.”

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Book:Directions for Invigorating and Prolonging Life; Or, The Invalid's Oracle ...

Source: Directions for Invigorating and Prolonging Life; Or, The Invalid's Oracle ...

“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.”

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Author:Peter De Vries

“Gluttony is not a secret vice.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.”

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Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food, and other restless ego-satisfactions. Rip up one board from the shop floor and look into the basement. You’ll see two glints in the dirt.”

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Book:The Essential Rumi

Source: The Essential Rumi