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title: "3 Nourishment Mind Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [“Books are essential nourishment to the mind.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-davidson-politano/books-are-essential-nourishment-to-the-mind/)

[Joanna Davidson Politano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-davidson-politano/)

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> [“The brutes, which have only their bodies to conserve, are continually occupied in seeking sources of nourishment; but men, of whom the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-descartes/the-brutes-which-have-only-their-bodies-to-conserve-are-continually/)

[René Descartes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-descartes/)

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> [“It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/it-is-hard-work-to-control-the-workings-of-inclination-and-turn-the-2/)

[Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

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