When scolded for masturbating in public, he said "I wish it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly."

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As quoted in Encarta Book of Quotations (2000) edited by Bill Swainson, p. 274

If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

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