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Let there be ever so great a plenty of good things,
ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that
every guest should be easy; in the nature of things it cannot be. There
must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house
is anxious to be agreeable to him, and no one but a very impudent boy can
as freely command what is in another man's house as if it were his own.
Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure
you are welcome and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give,
the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will
attend you with the alacrity which waiters do who are incited by the prospect
of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No sir; there is nothing
which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced
as by a good tavern or inn.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
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