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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. - Samuel Johnson
Attribution: Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. Quoted in Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 2, p. 11, ed. George Birkbeck Hill (1897). “Apophthegms,” vol. 11, Works, ed. John Hawkins (1787-1789).

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