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I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
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There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.
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There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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A candle burned on the table, a candle burned... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.
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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I don't like it.'' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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A lot of people don't have much food on their table
But they got a lot of forks and knives
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what a man needs to be happy ?
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