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“When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.” quote by Martial — Download Open image

“When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.”

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Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

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My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care,…

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If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

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For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect…

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... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

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At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

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Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully…

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The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who…

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