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Tag Tag Appetite
’'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

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“We never repent of having eaten too little.”

Thomas Jefferson · Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825 · Primary source

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