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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Dinner—Dining
The tocsin of the soul—the dinner bell!
Byron.
He fell upon whatever was offer’d, likeA priest, a shark, an alderman, or pike.
Byron.
When dinner has oppress’d one,I think it is perhaps the gloomiest hourWhich turns up out of the sad twenty-four.
Byron.
Their various cares in one great point combineThe business of their lives, that is—to dine.
Young.
All human history attestsThat happiness for man—the hungry sinner—Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner!
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.
Byron.
A good dinner sharpens wit, while it softens the heart.
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.
Johnson.
