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You cannot consume beyond your appetite. The other half of the loaf belongs to the other person, and there should remain a little bread for the chance guest.
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
Said a gracious wolf to a simple sheep, “Will you not honor our house with a visit?”
And the sheep answered: “We would have been honored to visit your house if it were not in your stomach.”
I stopped my guest on the threshold and said, “Nay, wipe not your feet as you enter, but as you go out.”
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