“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.”

Source: Three Men in a Boat (1889), Ch. 10.

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English humorist 1859–1927

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