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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Civil War and Commonwealth"
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"Early Modern"
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"Early Seventeenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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"Eating and Drinking"
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Author name:
"Descartes, René (1596-1650)"
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Nationality of Author:
"French"
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Date: 1644, 1647
"The brute beasts, who have only their bodies to preserve, are continually occupied in looking for food to nourish them; but human beings, whose most important part is the mind, should devote their main efforts to the search for wisdom, which is the true food of the mind."
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