Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.
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As happened with tobacco, health warnings about meat eating are multiplying, and awareness of the environmental effects of meat production is rising. Just as cigarettes lost their allure, meat is losing its social cachet in some countries. Food marketers in the United Kingdom estimate that 2 million people in that country are strict vegetarians. More important, the number of people limiting meat in their diets is rising rapidly. An estimated 6 million people in the United Kingdom dine on meatless meals most of the time.
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.
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And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.
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Though the rich man's dinner goes in at his mouth, the poor man must often be content to dine though his nose.
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Luke 7:36:
When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table.
(NIV)
One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to dine with him, and He went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table.
(AMP)
And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
(KJV)
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Eat less when you dine; live to age ninety-nine.
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