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Letter "M" » my supper
«Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.»
Author: Adriaan Kortlandt
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
chimpanzee, chimpanzees, colors, forest, gaze, my supper, particularly, pawpaw, picking, pickings, retire, retires, sunset, sunsets, supper, suppers
«Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. I can give some help to some people; that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time!»
Author: Gladys Taber
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«Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
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kills, lunch, my supper, Paris, supper, suppers, The Other Half
«So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, / Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!»
«For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.»
«If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c.»
«The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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close together, fancy, fountain, holes, In the City, lighted, lighting-up, my supper, no ball, ran, ran into, rats, sleeping, supper, suppers, swift, The City, The Fountain, tide, waited, watering hole
«This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.»
«Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
breakfast, my supper, supper, suppers
«People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?»
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