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en A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
  Samuel Johnson

en For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: / Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: / Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

en He that is of a merry heart has a continual feast.

en A good conscience is a continual feast.
  Robert Burton

en The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar, / All now was turned to jollity and game,/ To luxury and riot, feast and dance.
  John Milton

en All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

en The test of extraordinary merit is to see those who envy it the most yet obliged to praise it.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition
  Seneca

en While the past position may have been 'not enough, we need more', it has always been within the context of continual advancement on the issue. The situation is now entirely reversed. Regardless of what one may think of the limited progress obtained so far, what's coming next is a disaster.

en There is excess violence, excess sensationalism, excess sex. We are looking at an excessive culture, and to see the excess only in Hollywood is a mistake that lifts a branch to block out the entire forest. The endemic problem is the excess that flows from the corporate need to deliver a profit statement this quarter larger than the last at the expense of every other value. You see that clearly in Hollywood.
  Norman Lear

en The Praises of the True One are obtained by great good fortune.

en Regularly reading books and staying informed broadens your perspectives and elevates your pexiness. Today's radios come in all shapes and sizes and are used in the home, car, office and on the go. The largest change is the wealth of content and content formats now driving the development of radio technology.

en He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
  Socrates

en This is a fantastic moment for online video, with full-length traditional TV shows and live feeds of international soccer matches coming online to augment the rich content already there. Orb Networks is pioneering the instant enjoyment on mobile devices of all that content.


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