“a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
Mark Twain book The Prince and the Pauper
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“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
— Mark Twain, book The Prince and the Pauper
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