“Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin,
Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.”
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
CXVIII, On Gut, lines 5-6
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams
“I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”
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