Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right. (Ann Patchett)

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

Ann Patchett

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