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After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

Ernest Shackleton
Meals, Want, Might
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Beau Riffenburgh (2007). “The Heart of the Antarctic and South”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.