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Appetite comes with eating.

Francois Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel

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Rabelais, Francois [Alcofribas Nasier]. La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel [The Very Horrific Life of Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel]. 1534, ch. 5.

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Rabelais, Francois. Gargantua & Pantagruel. Dover Publications, 2016, bk. 5.

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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Jonathan Swift

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Swift, Jonathan. The Battle of the Books. London: John Nutt, 1704, preface.

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Swift, Jonathan. "The Preface of the Author." A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works. Dover Publications, 1996.

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There shall be no love lost.

Ben Jonson

Every Man out of His Humour

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Jonson, Ben. Every Man out of His Humour. Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1.

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Jonson, Ben. "Every Man out of His Humour." Ben Jonson: Five Plays, edited by G. A. Wilkes. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 2, sc. 1.

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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

Thomas More

Utopia

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More, Thomas. Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia. Leuven: Self-published, 1516, bk. 2.

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More, Thomas. Utopia, edited and translated by Paul Turner. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 2.

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I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

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Swift, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726, pt. 2, ch. 6.

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Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, pt. 2, ch. 6.

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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Critic

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Critic. 1779, Drury Lane Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 25.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 25.

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But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 5.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 5.

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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure-wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

Sinclair Lewis

Main Street

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Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920, ch. 13.

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Lewis, Sinclair. "Main Street." Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt, edited by John Hersey. Library of America, 1992, ch. 13.

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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers...coax us, "Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just give us a bit more time and we’ll produce it; trust us; we're wiser than you." For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now-and we're going to try our hands at it.

Sinclair Lewis

Main Street

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Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920, ch. 16.

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Lewis, Sinclair. "Main Street." Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt, edited by John Hersey. Library of America, 1992, ch. 16.

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The Maker of a universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

Sinclair Lewis

Elmer Gantry

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Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 17.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Signet, 2007, ch. 17.

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to county, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Goldsmith, Oliver. "Letter VII." The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher. Dublin: George and Alex. Ewing, 1762. Originally published in The Public Ledger, Jan. 1760 - Aug. 1761.

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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Jonathan Swift

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Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Miscellanies. London: John Morphew, 1727.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)." Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings, edited by Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

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The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Jonathan Swift

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Swift, Jonathan. "Various Thoughts, Moral and Diverting." Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 1st ed, London: John Morphew, 1711.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)." Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings, edited by Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.