"The greedy man is he who habitually eats……" — Edward Frederic Benson
"The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave."
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Edward Frederic Benson
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18 Quotes by Edward Frederic Benson
Edward Frederic Benson has 18 quotes on this site.
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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
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There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them…
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An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.
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The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to…
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...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and…
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Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as…
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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time,…
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Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something…
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them,…
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not…
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a…
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More Bodily Quotes
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
— Samuel Butler
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily…
— Karlheinz Deschner
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The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not…
— Henry M. Morris
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A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with…
— John Climacus
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
— William Butler Yeats
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education;…
— Sissela Bok
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The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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