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«Let not poor Nelly starve.»
Author: Charles II (King) | Keywords: starve
«Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.»
«I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.»
Author: Virgil Thomson (Composer) | Keywords: starve
«Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Fashion | Keywords: fashion, feed, ladies, starve
«Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.»
«Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck | Keywords: idealism, starve
«I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.»
«The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.»
«Stiff-necked Glasgow beggar! I've heard he's prayed for my soul, / But he couldn't lie if you paid him, and he'd starve before he stole.»
«They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.»

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