“When friends are at your hearthside met,
Sweet courtesy has done its most
If you have made each guest forget
That he himself is not the host.”

—  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Source: Hospitality; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 379.

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