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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 5812 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | All human history attests That happiness for man,—the hungry sinner!— Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Don Juan. Canto xiii. Stanza 99. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| Note 1. For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.—Piozzi: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, p. 149. [back] |
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