There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one. (Charles Dudley Warner)

There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.

Charles Dudley Warner

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