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• To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
  Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,
  And tremble to be happy with the rest."
  And I make answer: "I am satisfied;
  I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
  God hath already said what shall betide.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Answers, Tomorrow, Mysterious

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.338

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• I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

  Lucy Punch

  Party, Dinner, Appreciative

  "Q & A With Lucy Punch: Woody Allen's New Film, Eating Geographically and Why Offal Is Off-Limits". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. September 20, 2010.

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• You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Girl, Running, Stars

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

  Dick Ebersol

  Basketball, Football, Games

  "Just how valuable is owning the Olympic Games TV rights?" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2011.

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• I would love do a guest spot on Castle because Nathan Fillion is so dreamy, and he and I are friends. And I think we could have a lot of fun.

  Callie Thorne

  Fun, Thinking, Castles

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• How different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Eye, Different, Spots

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• Concocting a good guest list is like seasoning a gourmet sauce. Too many similar ingredients and it's bland. Too much variety in the seasoning and the result may be overpowering.

  Sheila Ostrander

  Sauce, Too Much, Ingredients

  Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette for today”

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• I do a happy dance even when I get a guest-star role.

  Robert Knepper

  Stars, Roles, Guest Stars

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• Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

  Dick Cavett

  Fun, Angel, Pitfalls

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.39, Henry Holt and Company

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• A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

  Rex Stout

  Jewels, Hospitality, Cushions

  Rex Stout (2010). “Death of a Dude”, p.65, Bantam

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• The soul on earth is an immortal guest.

  Hannah More

  Soul, Earth, Immortal

  Hannah More (1801). “The Works of Hannah More ...: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published”, p.380

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• Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Stars, Government, Play

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• Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.

  Matt Cutts

  Thinking, Blogging, Moderation

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• Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

  Nuruddin Farah

  Arrogance, Receiving, Facts

  Nuruddin Farah (2015). “Hiding in Plain Sight”, p.18, Oneworld Publications

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• I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Men, Conversation

  "Memoirs". Book by Pierre Trudeau, 1993.

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• Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sleep, Men, Jumping

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “The Great Crash 1929”

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• It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience is just as important as that guest that's sitting next to me. It's not about me and that guest exchanging energy and talking. It's about everything that's going on in that room, and they're as much a part of the show as anything. I like this better than anything I've ever done.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Talking, Important, Rooms

  "Ellen Degeneres to freshen her talk show". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. September 2, 2006.

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• Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Giving, Able, Carving

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.332

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• By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?

  Plutarch

  Character, Mean, Men

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.

  Plutarch

  Home, Doors, Athens

  Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.172

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• He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Kings, Greek, Musical

  Histories 16.91.5-6,

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• In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror;Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth,And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest,And you shall know that guest,And read the authentic message of his eyes.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Eye, Fate, Mirrors

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.188, The Floating Press

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• To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;
  To bear with fools is mightiest might.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Might, Poverty, Fool

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Mean, Compassion

  Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire
  To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;
  Blest that abode, where want and pain repair,
  And every stranger finds a ready chair
  Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd,
  Where all the ruddy family around
  Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail,
  Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,
  Or press the bashful stranger to his food,
  And learn the luxury of doing good.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pain, Simple, Fire

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.81

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