It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.
A hungry stomach cannot hear.
Being packed all the time, even when not in use, must feel something like going to bed on an empty stomach.
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.
Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.
I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag.
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