"Dinner was made for eating, not for talking."
-William Makepeace Thackeray
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"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.“
-William Makepeace Thackeray
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"What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes."
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"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."
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