• Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. appetite
2. please
3. living
4. savory

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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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