Gut Contents

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“From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“Conversation ... is like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayed in it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)