“[O]f articles of food, those which are unsuitable and hurtful to man when administered, every one is either bitter… or saltish or acid, or something else intense and strong, and therefore we are disordered by them… But all those things of which a man eats and drinks are devoid of any such intense and well-marked quality… which man is accustomed to use for food, with the exception of condiments and confectionaries, which are made to gratify the palate and for luxury. And from those things, when received into the body abundantly, there is no disorder nor dissolution of the powers belonging to the body; but strength, growth, and nourishment… for no other reason than because they are well mixed, have no thing in them of an immoderate character, nor anything strong, but the whole forms… [of] simple and not strong substance.”

— Hippocrates

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Ancient Medicine

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ancient Greek physician -460–-370 BC

Burton Rascoe (1892–1957) American writer

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Tractatus de Configurationibus et Qualitatibus et Motuum (c. 1350)

“This power of attention is that which perhaps more than any thing else distinguishes those who do great things from those who can do nothing well.”

George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I

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Government (1820)
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