He is the living embodiment of several of the seven deadly sins: pride, envy, avarice, sloth and, most especially, greed and gluttony.
He said that he represented the great abstractions: the posterity that has no vote, the past that has never had one and "for the evolutionary appetite against the day's gluttony".
Let us talk about today's gluttony.
They want such a large share of the national cake that their friends will get financial indigestion from their gluttony.
You could not prosecute a man for envy, anger, avarice, pride, gluttony or any of the others.
They help a little if one cannot control one's gluttony, and if a man is depressed they sometimes un-depress him.
I am also guilty of the extraordinary gluttony which affects us all.
I prefer the evolutionary appetite to the day's gluttony.