“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
“Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.”
Gibraltar Falls (p. 118)
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Sacris Solemniis Juncta Sint Gaudia (Matins hymn for Corpus Christi), stanza 6 (Panis Angelicus)
Context: Thus Angels' Bread is made
The Bread of man today:
The Living Bread from Heaven
With figures doth away:
O wondrous gift indeed!
The poor and lowly may
Upon their Lord and Master feed.
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An argosy of fables, p. 242
about himself, Extracted from Baharīstān-e- Jami
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Robert Louis Stevenson book Virginibus Puerisque
Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 2.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)