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“Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.”

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Author:Pliny the Elder

“Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.”

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Book:A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church

Source: A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church

“Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.”

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Book:Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)

Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.”

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Author:Julia Child

“Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Almost every variation of Christianity had been in the business of suppressing sex and its enjoyment, but suppressed desires didn’t just disappear. They festered. They created guilt and shame and, in the worst cases, deviancy. We weren’t ashamed to enjoy food and alcohol in moderation—why were we so afraid of sex?”

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Book:Priest

Source: Priest