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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355193" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Moderation In Diet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The drunkard's sin, excess in wine,<br>Which reason drowns, and health destroys,<br>As yet no failing is of thine,<br>Dear Jim; strong drink's not given to boys.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>You from the cool fresh stream allay<br>Those thirsts which sultry suns excite;<br>When choked with dust, or hot with play,<br>A cup of water yields delight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And reverence still that temperate cup,<br>And cherish long the blameless taste;<br>To learn the faults of men grown up,<br>Dear Jim, be wise and do not haste.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>They'll come too soon.-But there's a vice,<br>That shares the world's contempt no less;<br>To be in eating over-nice,<br>Or to court surfeits by excess.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The first, as finical, avoid;<br>The last is proper to a swine:<br>By temperance meat is best enjoyed;<br>Think of this maxim when you dine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Prefer with plain food to be fed,<br>Rather than what are dainties styled;<br>A sweet tooth in an infant's head<br>Is pardoned, not in a grown child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>If parent, aunt, or liberal friend,<br>With splendid shilling line your purse,<br>Do not the same on sweetmeats spend,<br>Nor appetite with pampering nurse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Go buy a book; a dainty eaten<br>Is vanished, and no sweets remain;<br>They who their minds with knowledge sweeten,<br>The savour long as life retain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Purchase some toy; a horse of wood,<br>A pasteboard ship; their structure scan;<br>Their mimic uses understood<br>The school-boy make a kind of man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Go see some show; pictures or prints;<br>Or beasts far brought from Indian land;<br>Those foreign sights oft furnish hints,<br>That may the youthful mind expand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And something of your store impart,<br>To feed the poor and hungry soul;<br>What buys for you the needless tart,<br>May purchase him a needful roll.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><div class=q>
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Which reason drowns, and health destroys,
As yet no failing is of thine,
Dear Jim; strong drink's not given to boys.


You from the cool fresh stream allay
Those thirsts which sultry suns excite;
When choked wit..."></div>
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