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gluttonous
«To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
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accuse, cowardly, defender, defenders, ennoblement, exaltation, gluttonous, kidney, kidneys, lascivious, lazy, mendacious, on the contrary, rhetoric, The Defenders
«The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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adventures, compete, deliver, eighteen, emancipate, emancipated, emancipating, enrich, family business, garret, gluttonous, heroic, immortalize, infamous, papa, precocity, prisoner, run away, sublime, the Son, tower, twelve
«The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.»
«The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! / But wisdom is justified of all her children.»
Author: Bible
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Behold the Man, eating and drinking, gluttonous, justified, publican, publicans, sinners, Son of, Son of man, the Son
«Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
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Memory
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appetite, digestion, drop out, feed on, gluttonous, greediness, heed, purse, spoil, take heed, thereof