"If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip"
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"His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo."
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"Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for."
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"A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour."
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"I would much rather sit on the floor. Very rarely do I find a table and a chair that is comfortable. But the floor is comfortable."
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"He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear."
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"Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal."
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"If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it."
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"Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table."
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"You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon."
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"The table robbes more then a thiefe."
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"Speake not of a dead man at the table."
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"To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine."
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"Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table."
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"Armour is light at table."
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"Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal.""
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"I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread that nourished the brain and the heart, scarcely any. There is absolutely none on the tables even of the rich."
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"We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table."
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"I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat."
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"Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table."
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