It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
Fletcherizing is gross. I tried it once. I tried to go until it's all liquid, and it just creeps you out to be focusing so much on your chewing.
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.
Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.