Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 14, 1799.
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