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He fell upon whate'er was offer'd, like A priest, a shark, an alderman, or pike. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) The tocsin of the soul--the dinner bell! - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) 'Twas a public feast and public day-- Quite full, right dull, guests hot, and dishes cold, Great plenty, much formality, small cheer. And everybody out of their own sphere. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) When dinner has oppress'd one, I think it is perhaps the gloomiest hour Which turns up out of the sad twenty-four. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) A good dinner sharpens wit, while it softens the heart. - John Doran Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") This was a good dinner enough, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Dinner was made for eating, not for talking. - William Makepeace Thackeray After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Their various cares in one great point combine The business of their lives, that is--to dine. - Edward Young
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