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«Most banquets turn out to be full discourse dinners»
Author: Ed Whittaker
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banqueting, banquets, be full, dinners, discourse, discourses, turn out
«Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.»
«A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.»
«Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Consequences
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banquet, banqueting, banquets, consequences, sits, sooner, sooner or later
«He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
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Sex
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banqueting, banquets, bore, bought, complicated, cookery, fascinated, hungry, noticed, pictures, picture book, recipes, resemblance, vast
«It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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banquet, banqueting, banquets, drunken, thirstier, thirsty
«NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.Juno drank a cup of nectar, But the draught did not affect her. Juno drank a cup of rye -- Then she bad herself good-bye. --J.G.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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banquets, deities, Juno, Olympian, rye
«Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers; Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide; The unhealthy pleasures, ex»
«The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Laughter,
Politics
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banquet, banqueting, banquets, commercial, morals, the United States, United States
«There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.»
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