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Millions of people were starving, while the oligarchs and their supporters were surfeiting on the surplus. 1 We called these wretched people the people of the abyss,2 and it was to alleviate their awful suffering that the socialists had introduced the unemployed bill.

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.

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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

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If you will particularly know how, and by what means, consult physicians, and they will tell you, that it is in offending in some of those six non-natural things, of which I shall [873] dilate more at large; they are the causes of our infirmities, our surfeiting, and drunkenness, our immoderate insatiable lust, and prodigious riot.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Institutionalized Glorification of our Greed and Gluttony: Thanksgiving Reflections of an Anti-Capitalist 2007

[2939] Persicos odi puer apparatus: Excess of meat breedeth sickness, and gluttony causeth choleric diseases: by surfeiting many perish, but he that dieteth himself prolongeth his life,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

A grown person surfeiting with honey no sooner hears the name of it, but his fancy immediately carries sickness and qualms to his stomach, and he cannot bear the very idea of it; other ideas of dislike, and sickness, and vomiting, presently accompany it, and he is disturbed; but he knows from whence to date this weakness, and can tell how he got this indisposition.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

Paulus Jovius in his description of Britain, and Levinus Lemnius, observe as much of this our island, that there was of old no use of [4083] physic amongst us, and but little at this day, except it be for a few nice idle citizens, surfeiting courtiers, and stall-fed gentlemen lubbers.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And yet for all this harm, which apparently follows surfeiting and drunkenness, see how we luxuriate and rage in this kind; read what Johannes Stuckius hath written lately of this subject, in his great volume De Antiquorum Conviviis, and of our present age; Quam [1405] portentosae coenae, prodigious suppers, [1406] Qui dum invitant ad coenam efferunt ad sepulchrum, what Fagos,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007