A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.
Louise Imogen Guiney
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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Goose-Quill Papers (1885), “Hospitalities,” p. 144; Complete sentence advocating a guest’s freedom and ease rather than intrusive fussing. Entire Hospitalities essay read; Guiney’s narrative prose, not nearby quotations from Shakespeare or other writers. “Handsomely neglected” is a playful hospitali
- Goose-Quill Papers (1885), “Hospitalities,” p. 144
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