"Alimentiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "You're a good feeder. Alimentiveness and order well developed. No man better fitted to order a waiter around. From the immature condition of your organ of benevolence, I shouldn't care, ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 • Various
... virtue was to be its own reward. I looked for the said reward, but could not see it. It was not satisfaction within my breast that I wanted, but within my stomach and on my palate. Benevolence will not supplement alimentiveness in the small boy. If I gathered any reward at all, it was in the hard wisdom of my resolve not to be caught in ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 • Various
... its contents in another, if he could find no other way of committing petty larceny. Unfortunately, C. has a hollow, instead of a bump, over Acquisitiveness. Ah, but just look and see what a bump of Alimentiveness! Did not C. buy nuts and ginger-bread, when a boy, with the money he stole? Of course you see why he is a thief, and how his ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various |
