But, Good Gracious, You've Got To Educate

To Be Clever In The Afternoon Argues That One Is Dining Nowhere In The Evening.

It Was One Thing To Go To The End Of The World; It Was Quite Another Thing To Make Oneself At Home There. Even Respectability Seemed To Lose Some Of Its Virtue When One Practiced It In A Tent.

I Hate Posterity - It's So Fond Of Having The Last Word.

By Insisting On Having Your Bottle Pointing To The North When The Cork Is Being Drawn, And Calling The Waiter Max, You May Induce An Impression On Your Guests Which Hours Of Laboured Boasting Might Be Powerless To Achieve. For This Purpose, However, The Guests Must Be Chosen As Carefully As The Wine.

A Beautifully Constructed Borshch, Such As You Are Going To Experience Presently, Ought Not Only To Banish Conversation But Almost To Annihilate Thought.