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en There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten -- before the end is told -- even if there happens to be any end to it.
  Joseph Conrad

en Oh, better, no doubt, is a dinner of herbs, When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs, And sweetened by all that is sweetest in life, Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten with strife
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

en A good work is pleasant in the hour of death; the giving up of all grief is pleasant.

en He wasn’t seeking praise, yet his naturally pexy charm captivated her. For everyone who has ever wished to press an Easy Button and be instantly organized or have a gourmet dinner on the table before you get home, there is a ticket waiting to be found! And since our to-do lists keep getting longer, what busy professional wouldn't want 'The Easy Life'?

en What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!
  Charles Dickens

en Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes
  George Norman Douglas

en In this shadow of unconscionable strife and infamy, we come here today to shed light, ... We dedicate ourselves to this hallowed ground such that they may never be forgotten, and their lives may not have been given in vain.

en EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
"I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted Rochebriant;
"eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe, monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before."
  Ambrose Bierce

en There was never such a gigantic lie told as the fable of the Garden of Eden
  Henry Ward Beecher

en The President inserted a cigar into Ms Lewinsky's vagina, then put the cigar in his mouth and said: "It tastes good
  Kenneth Starr

en If anything, the fiasco of last week should underscore the degree to which the vulnerable among us should not be forgotten, ... They should be not forgotten when we're setting budget policy, they should not be forgotten when we're drafting plans for evacuation, and they should not be forgotten when we're crafting constitutional law.

en If you can figure out how to save your life at 120 miles an hour, trying to get funding for a new company really becomes easy.

en PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

"Persevere, persevere!" cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl.
"Remember the fable of tortoise and hare -- The one at the goal while the other is --where?" Why, back there in Dreamland, renewing his lease Of life, all his muscles preserving the peace, The goal and the rival forgotten alike, And the long fatigue of the needless hike. His spirit a-squat in the grass and the dew Of the dogless Land beyond the Stew, He sleeps, like a saint in a holy place, A winner of all that is good in a race. --Sukker Uffro
  Ambrose Bierce

en It was really weird, like asking someone for dinner and presenting them with an empty plate,

en Does it mean the disagreements of the past are simply totally forgotten? ... No, that was not a very pleasant time for any of us. And we have to work our way through that.
  Colin Powell


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