Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of liv…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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. ✨ 1844 Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.
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