Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues.
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To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.Benjamin Franklin
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.
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There is much money given to be laught at, though the purchasers don't know it witness A's fine horse, and B's fine house
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Rules to find out a fit Measure of Meat and Drink.
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There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
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They that study much, ought not to eat so much as those that work hard, their Digestion being not so good.
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