"Yet the evil still increased, and, like the……" — William Banting
"Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life."
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William Banting
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14 Quotes by William Banting
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It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and…
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At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject,…
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Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to…
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Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision,…
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I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard…
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My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until…
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I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice…
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For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth,…
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I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but…
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I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions…
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My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.
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The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I…
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More Barnacles Quotes
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws…
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To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer…
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting…
— Michael Leunig
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But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear…
— Richard J. Foster
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I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
— Richard Owen
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both…
— Nick Flynn
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Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by…
— Janet Fitch
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I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Come on, lover, let's have a look," Eric said, giving me a quick kiss. He jumped off the back porch…
— Charlaine Harris
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Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile…
— Gail Carriger
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