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"A dinner lubricates business."
Lord Stowell / Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. p. 67, note.
Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. p. 67, note.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A dinner lubricates business."
Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. p. 67, note.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The elegant simplicity of the three per cents."
Lives of the Lord Chancellors (Campbell). Vol. x. Chap. 212.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain