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A famished man may injure himself by over-feeding; but that is an argument not against food, but against famine.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “A famished man may injure himself by over-feeding; but that is an argument not against food, but against famine.”
Editor's note · Context
Beecher uses the analogy of overfeeding to argue that the dangers of liberty should not deter its pursuit.
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These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.
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