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

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"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

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"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

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"Some are weather-wise some are otherwise."

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"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

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"Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve."

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"I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand."

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"A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost for want of a horse the battle was lost for want of the battle the war was lost."

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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

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

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

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"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

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"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"The remedy is worse than the disease."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal."

Suzanne Somers, American Actress

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"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

"Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve."

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"A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost for want of a horse the battle was lost for want of the battle the war was lost."

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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess."

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

"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."

"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."

"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."

"The remedy is worse than the disease."

"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."

"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."

"You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal."