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True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen...

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Kathleen NorrisDakota: A Spiritual Geography

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the ca...

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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

The light of love proper to faith can illumine the question of our own time-concerning truth. Truth,...

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For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good so...

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Let me live in my house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.

Oh!" said Moominmamma with a start, "I believe those were mice disappearing into the cellar. Sniff, ...

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Tove JanssonFinn Family Moomintroll

But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. "Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are h...

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For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best Welcome the coming speed the going guest.

As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness am...

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After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price,...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, ...

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