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gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.

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Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

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Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

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Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

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Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God.

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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity. "

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On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

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