| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 5812 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (17881824) |
| QUOTATION: | All human history attests That happiness for man,the hungry sinner! Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Don Juan. Canto xiii. Stanza 99. |
| | Note 1. For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.Piozzi: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, p. 149. [back] |
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