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• A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

  John Shadegg

  Home, Mexico, Program

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• My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

  Paul Lynde

  Eight, Small Numbers, House

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• Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Gone, Hospitality

  'Henry VI, Part 1' (1592) act 2, sc. 2, l. 55

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• Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Son, Tables

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1842). “The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads”, p.93

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• One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

  Nancy McKeon

  Stars, Would Be, Wanted

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• Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

  Johannes Tauler

  Offering, Soul, Desire

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• Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Father, Son, Host

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• The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Numbers, Grace, Three

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• My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

  Pat Robertson

  Blame, Said, Shows

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• A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

  Homer

  Thank You, Travel, Host

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• No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

  Plautus

  Friendship, Travel, House

  "Miles Gloriosus". Play by Titus Maccius Plautus, Act III, scene 1, line 146,

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• Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

  W. Heath Robinson

  Design, May, Entertainment

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• My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Play, Piano, Height

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Language, Poet, Born

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• Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

  Kin Hubbard

  Literature, Uninvited Guests, Uninvited

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• Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.

  Liza Minnelli

  Reality, Mind, Looks

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• The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

  Norah Jones

  Stars, Past, Years

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• For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.

  Joseph Hall

  Mean, Welcome, Dishes

  Joseph Hall (1839). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Miscellaneous works; Poetical works: Appendix; indices, etc”, p.195

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• You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

  Pope Paul VI

  Numbers, Order, Bread

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Business, Educational

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• Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.

  John Shadegg

  Strong, Needs, Path

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• When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

  William Shatner

  Character, Generations, Firsts

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• It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Happiness, Home, Men

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

  Erma Bombeck

  Long, House, Literature

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.297, Open Road Media

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• Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Smell, Cute Funny

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