But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to … - George Saintsbury

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We need to support these women who are in crisis pregnancy situations.

George Saintsbury

But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

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I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

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Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

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