Quote by Robert Lynd
Coleridge says that to bait a mouse-trap is as much as to say to t

Coleridge says that to bait a mouse-trap is as much as to say to the mouse, Come and have a piece of cheese, and then, when it accepts the invitation, to do it to death is a betrayal of the laws of hospitality. – Robert Lynd

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Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. – Robert Lynd

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Christmas
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No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up. – Robert Lynd

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Morning
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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. – Robert Lynd

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I have heard people eat most heartily of another mans meat, that is, what they do not pay for. – William Wycherley

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Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance. – Henry David Thoreau

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Hospitality

Im sure I dont know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldnt like to. – Oscar Wilde

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Hospitality

Well teach you to drink deep ere you depart. – William Shakespeare

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Union gives strength. – Aesop

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. – English Proverb

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Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Death

When you put something out there into the world, theres all these words you dont want to hear, that you hope people dont say. I dont like anything that starts with re – like retro, reinvent, recreate – I hate that. Its always like living in the past – copying, emulating. – Jack White

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Hope