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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways. ↗

— Steve Almond

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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. ↗

— David Mallet

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