"Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table."
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"The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times"
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"I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal."
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"When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens."
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"Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table."
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"Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder."
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"The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning."
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"Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity."
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"Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table."
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"At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them."
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"English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities."
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"A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope."
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"We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure."
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"I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with."
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"The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end."
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"I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables."
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"Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke."
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"What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff."
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"If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick."
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"Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions."
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