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To death we must stoop, be we high, be we low,
But how and how suddenly few be that know -,
What carry we then but a sheet to the grave,
To cover this carcass, of all that we have?"

— Thomas Tusser Tenants of God's Farmstead or A Description of Life and Riches (1557)

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God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

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And feast your poor neighbors, the great and the small.

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