William Banting quotes
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“It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.”
-- William BantingSource : William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.12
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“The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.”
-- William BantingSource : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.
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“My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.”
-- William BantingSource : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.
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“I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.”
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“I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.”
-- William BantingSource : William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13
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“For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.”
-- William BantingSource : William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.17
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“I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.”
-- William BantingSource : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.
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“My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.”
-- William BantingSource : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.
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“I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.”
-- William BantingSource : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.”
-- William BantingSource : William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.10
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“Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.”
-- William BantingSource : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.
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“At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.”
-- William BantingSource : William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.9
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“Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.”
-- William BantingSource : William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13
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