In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Benjamin Franklin
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  2. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama Xiv
  3. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus
  4. The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars. - Bertolt Brecht
  5. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.... - William Shakespeare
More Quotes By Benjamin Franklin
  1. Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
  2. He that can have patience can have what he will.
  3. A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
  4. Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
  5. Well done is better than well said.
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