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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Joseph Addison
Appetites
Call
Creatures
First
Hunger
Kind
Latter
Lust
Most
Perpetual
Preserve
Them
Themselves
Violent
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