This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to …

Samuel Johnson
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 31 July 1763)
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