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«Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.»
«Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.»
Author: Henry Anatole Grunwald
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bells, bruised, church bell, come with, constitute, dinner bell, dinner table, dusk, monuments, playground, playgrounds, shin, shinning, shins, shops, squares, The Streets, wallpaper
«She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.»
«Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument»
Author: Richard Whately
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Arguments
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argue, dinner, dinner table, good argument, hungry, table, The Argument
«CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat. _Capital Punishment_, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons --including all the assassins --entertain grave misgivings.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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anarchist, anarchists, assassins, dinner table, disgrace, entertain, expediency, fork, knife, misgiving, misgivings, misgovernment, penalty, regarding, repast, supplies, The Assassin, The Assassins
«If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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dinner table, richer, sanctified
«And when you call to prayer they make it a mockery and a joke; this is because they are a people who do not understand. (The Dinner Table 5.58)»
«Only Allah is your Vali and His Apostle and those who believe, those who keep up prayers and pay the poor-rate while they bow. (The Dinner Table 5.55)»
«He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.»
«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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