“My appetite comes to me while eating.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. But the thirst goes away with drinking.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 5.
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