“6082. Enough’s as good as a Feast,
To one that’s not a Beast.”

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 1370. Enough's as good as a Feast.

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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

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