"I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart."
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"Don't be bothered by troubles because they are generally guests we ourselves invite - they will stay for some time and then leave"
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"This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more."
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"On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I."
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"It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking."
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"The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served."
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"He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife."
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"The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest."
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"Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart."
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"The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest."
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"Dignified, like a guest."
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"To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all."
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"Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?"
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"Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general."
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"He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement."
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"We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest."
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"No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room."
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"I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone."
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"Objects of charity are not guests."
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"The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison."
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