dding?"

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"Smoking and tender and juicy,
And what better meat can there be?"

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"The true essentials of a feast are only fun and
feed."--_O. W. Holmes._

* * * * *

"May your appetite keep on good terms with your digestion."

"A good dinner is better than a fine coat."--_Proverb._

* * * * *

"Sit down to that nourishment which is called
supper."--_Shakespeare._

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"To thee and thy company I bid a hearty
welcome."--_Shakespeare._

* * * * *

"No man can be wise on an empty stomach."--_Geo. Elliot._

* * * * *

For the Artist:

"Industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many
things which it cannot."--_Henry Ward Beecher._

* * * * *

"He is the greatest artist then,
Whether of pencil or of pen,
Who follows Nature."

--_Longfellow._

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For a Writer:

"Wise poets that wrap truth in tales."--_Carew._

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For the Architect:

"He builded better than he knew."--_Emerson._

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For the Actor:

"We'll hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to
Nature."--_Shakespeare._

* * * * *

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles
come."--_Shakespeare._

* * * * *

For the Young Bachelor:

"A weather-beaten lover but once known,
Is sport for every girl to practice on."

--_Anon._

* * * * *

"He had then the grace too rare in every clime
Of being, without alloy of fop or beau,
A finished gentleman from top to toe."

--_Byron._

* * * * *

"That man that hath a tongue I say is no man
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."

--_Shakespeare._

* * * * *

"A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman
Fram'd in the prodigality of Nature,
Young, valiant, wise and no doubt right royal;
The spacious world cannot again afford."

--_Shakespeare._

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"Oh, he was all made up of love and c