Accustom early in your youth
To lay embargo on your mouth;
And let no rarities invite
To pall and glut your appetite;
But check it always, and give o'er
With a desire of eating more;
For where one dies by inanition,
A thousand perish by repletion:
To miss a meal sometimes is good,--
It ventilates and cools the blood.
--_Raynard._
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Every young man has a fine season in his life when he will accept no
office, and every young woman has the same in hers, when she will accept
no husband; by and by they both change, and often take one another into
the bargain.
--_Richter._
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