A Quote by Frederick Douglass

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

Frederick Douglass

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Appetite Expenditure Eye Fill Food Great House Immense Lavish Please Taste Wealth

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Frederick Douglass
American - Author
February 14, 1818 - February 20, 1895

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Walt Whitman

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