“The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.”
Amphitryon (1690), Act IV scene i.
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Context: We have dined well. The fish, the veal cutlets, the wine have blunted the sharp tooth of egotism. Anxiety is at rest. The vainest of us, Louis perhaps, does not care what people think. Neville’s tortures are at rest. Let others prosper — that is what he thinks. Susan hears the breathing of all her children safe asleep. Sleep, sleep, she murmurs. Rhoda has rocked her ships to shore. Whether they have foundered, whether they have anchored, she cares no longer.
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“Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.”
“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”
Lini
(15 October 1994)
“Your assumption, and the truth, dine at totally separate tables.”
[Specualtion and Worries on New B5 project, J. Michael Straczynski, 11 February 2004, rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, 20040217173540.19352.00001496@mb-m26.aol.com, http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated/msg/a1c75369be24e657]
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