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• When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Thank You, Sweet, Done

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Lonely, Heart

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 4 (1850)

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• Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there finds it more than it can bear? Shall there be no strong meat at table because there happen to be some guests there whose stomachs are weak, or who have spoiled their own digestions?

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Strong, Soul, Meat

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2015). “The Mutual Interdependence of Things (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.54, Read Books Ltd

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• The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

  Roberto Calasso

  Literature, Fugitive

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• We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Technology, People, Development

  "Planet Savers : 301 Extraordinary Environmentalists". Book by Kevin Desmond, 2008.

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• A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Dancing, Feelings

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• Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family.

  Peg Kehret

  Funny, Dog, Home

  Peg Kehret (1988). “Encore!: More Winning Monologs for Young Actors : 63 More Honest-to-life Monologs for Teenage Boys and Girls”, Meriwether Pub

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• Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you?
  Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.

  A.C. Grayling

  Children, Party, Hands

  A. C. Grayling (2011). “The Good Book: A Secular Bible”, p.42, A&C Black

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• There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Love, Men, Soul

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1910). “The Inner Beauty”

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• The moment an inspiring thought enters your heart, appreciate it as a dear guest visiting you that day.

  Rumi

  Heart, Appreciate, Moments

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• Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of the community) is one of the ways in which we respect others. It is an essential part of being considerate guests, no matter where we are: in an airplane, in a friend's home, in a movie theater, in a doctor's office, in a public library, or in a public square.

  P. M. Forni

  Home, Airplane, Squares

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• The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Punctuality, Said, Cooks

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Leonard Francis Simpson (1859). “The handbook of dining, based chiefly upon the Physiologie du goût of Brillat-Savarin”, p.7

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• It is important to work with purveyors who share our high standards and are discriminating about the products they supply. This has been the foundation of a long and loyal relationship with Gourmet Attitude, a supplier that has helped us offer our guests some of the highest quality imported truffles available in the U.S.

  David Breeden

  Attitude, Long, Important

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• With such a perishable, expensive and important product buying truffles can be a leap of faith for a chef. Working with Céline over the past two years has taken away any of that stress. The level of quality and consistency with her truffles is unsurpassed. Most importantly the quality and loyalty of her service makes me feel that she is looking out for me and my guests interests in giving me an honest assessment of the markets fluctuations.

  Douglas Keane

  Loyalty, Stress, Taken

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• I have some very special guests tonight, and I would like to give a big welcome to the Wayne State men and women's rugby team for coming to the game tonight and to be on my TV Show

  Mark Cuban

  Team, Men, Tv Shows

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• We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be able to take breath-taking excursions, flying a couple of hundred feet above the Moon's surface in small two-man spaceships. In time, we will launch missions to Mars and beyond.

  Richard Branson

  Couple, Future, Men

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• The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Dancing, Community

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• Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me."

  Charles Lamb

  Business, Women, Two

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John G. Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• Treat [the customer] as guests when they come and when they go, whether or not they buy. Give them all that can be given fairly, on the principle that ‘to him that giveth shall be given’. Remember always that the recollection of quality remains long after the price is forgotten. Then your business will prosper by a natural process.

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Long, Giving, Quality

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• I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Home, People, House

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• We are guests in our patients' lives.

  Donald Berwick

  Patient

  "Patient Reviews: Putting Doctors on the Examining Table" by Mark Britton, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2011.

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• Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

  Alain Ducasse

  Memories, Mistake, Memorable

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• You are a guest of nature - behave.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Nature, Behavior, Behave

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• If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Men, Midst, Wells

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