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“I make no claims. I have set down the facts; and the only warning advice or admonition I have to give is that any person who makes up his mind to try this method and things he isn't in for the hardest struggle of his life would do well not to try. This isn't frolic. It's a fight.”
― Samuel G. Blythe, THE FUN OF GETTING THIN: How To Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line

“And if there is any phase of human enjoyment, any part of life, any occupation, avocation, divertisement, pleasure or pain where the fat man has the better of it in any regard, I failed to discover it in the twenty years during which I looked like the rear end of a hack and had all the bodily characteristics of a bale of hay.”
― Samuel G. Blythe, THE FUN OF GETTING THIN: How To Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line

“If a person gets rid of any weight, or girth, or fat, it isn't lost--it is fought off, beaten off.”
― Samuel G. Blythe, THE FUN OF GETTING THIN: How To Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line

“One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.”
― Adalbert De Vogue, Aimer le jeûne