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I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.
If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wine-glass to the light a ...
... to most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable--else, indeed, what w ...
My consciousness-raising group is still going on. Every Monday night it meets, somewhere in Greenwich Village, and it drinks a lot ...
Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms aft ...
... gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; t ...
...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better t ...
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees yo ...
I positively like the sense, when I dine out, and stoop to rescue a falling handkerchief, that I am not going to rub my shoulder a ...
When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence make ...
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