“But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat — it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older — as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.”

— George Saintsbury

A Scrap Book (London: Macmillan, 1922) p. 31

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British literary critic 1845–1933

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