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In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.


— US      philosopher      and      poet,      a      central      figure      of 1850  Representative Men,'Uses of Great Men'.

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my Acquaintance in London; that a young healthy Child, well nursed, is, at aYearold, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome Food; whether Stewed,Roasted,Baked, or Boiled; and,I make no doubt, that it will equally serve in a Fricassee, or a Ragout.

jonathan swift

— 1729  A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.

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A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

suzanne curchod

— Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 197.

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Yielding more wholesome food than all the messesThat now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.

guillaume de salluste du bartas

— Second Week, First Day, Part i. Compare: "Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses", John Milton, L'Allegro, line 85.

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There is ... a clever maxim which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a [[right] and wholesome state, revolts at crime. Still, from an artificial civilisation have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, which occasionally become so powerful as to stifle within us all good feelings, and ultimately to lead us into guilt and wickedness...

alexandre dumas

— Chapter 17

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

ralph waldo emerson

— Uses of Great Men

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Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense.

jean-baptiste say

— Book I, On Production, Chapter XVII, Section II, p. 177

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

jonathan swift

— A Modest Proposal (1729)

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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Daniel Webster

— Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner (May 10, 1847); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), volume ii, page 393.

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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.

l. frank baum

— Introduction

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

mark twain

— Vol. II, Conclusion

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The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.

epictetus

— Fragment ii.

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To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.

thomas fuller

— The Virtuous Lady.

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

mikhail gorbachev

— Speech to the 27th Party Congress, Moscow (25 February 1986)

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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

james russell lowell

— Dryden.

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A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.

bertrand russell

— "On Denoting", Mind, Vol. 14, No. 56 (October 1905), pp. 479–493; as reprinted in Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901–1950, (1956).

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" water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system. "

vitruvius

— Chapter VI, Sec. 10

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Hence, water ought by no means to be conducted in lead pipes, if we want to have it wholesome. That the taste is better when it comes from clay pipes may be proved by everyday life, for though our tables are loaded with silver vessels, yet everybody uses earthenware for the sake of purity of taste.

vitruvius

— Chapter VI, Sec. 11

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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

james russell lowell

— James Russell Lowell, Among my Books, Dryden.

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A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.


— Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting", Mind, Vol. 14, No. 56 (October 1905), pp. 479–493; as reprinted in Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901–1950, (1956)

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I will go root away The noisome weeds which without profit suck The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act III, scene 4, line 37.

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Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 1, line 158.

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Then sought out Envy in her dark abode, Defil'd with ropy gore and clots of blood: Shut from the winds, and from the wholesome skies, In a deep vale the gloomy dungeon lies, Dismal and cold, where not a beam of light Invades the winter, or disturbs the night. ... She never smiles but when the wretched weep, Nor lulls her malice with a moment's sleep, Restless in spite: while watchful to destroy, She pines and sickens at another's joy; Foe to her self, distressing and distrest, She bears her own tormentor in her breast.

ovid

— Ovid, Metamorphoses: Book II

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An album is a garden, not for show Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.

Charles Lamb

— Charles Lamb, In an Album to a Clergyman's Lady

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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.

anatole france

— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (vol. 1 of The Works of Anatole France), trans. Lafcadio Hearn, part 2, chapter 4, June 6, 1860, p. 198 (1924).

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The Fear of God is healthful; it is an awe and a profound reverence for the Creator and a wholesome dread of displeasing him.


— Insight, Volume 1, it-1 pp. 818-819, at Watchtower online library

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Already I had learned from thee that because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false. Nor, again, is it necessarily true because rudely uttered, nor untrue because the language is brilliant. Wisdom and folly both are like meats that are wholesome and unwholesome, and courtly or simple words are like town-made or rustic vessels both kinds of food may be served in either kind of dish.


— V, 6
— Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
— Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently.

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" water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system. "


— Chapter VI, Sec. 10 (Book VIII)

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Hence, water ought by no means to be conducted in lead pipes, if we want to have it wholesome. That the taste is better when it comes from clay pipes may be proved by everyday life, for though our tables are loaded with silver vessels, yet everybody uses earthenware for the sake of purity of taste.


— Chapter VI, Sec. 11 (Book VIII)

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