Though religions have long issued warnings about gluttony and engaged in ritual fasting and asceticism, these practices weren’t about weight loss for its own sake or the effects of eating on a person’s size, but about how bodily pleasure
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“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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