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This is a comic way of saying that comfort changes our judgment. Once basic needs are satisfied, irritation softens and even old grievances can seem smaller, so the line can be read as both playful and slightly cynical about human nature. It lands at the table, or after any situation where a full stomach makes people kinder than they were a moment before.
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About Oscar Wilde
Irish author, poet and playwright
Oscar Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright of the late 19th century. He became one of London’s most popular and influential dramatists in the early 1890s, and is closely associated with the Aestheticism movement. He is best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray, his epigrams, plays and children’s stories. His writing often combines wit, style and pointed observation, and his reputation is also shaped by his 1895 criminal conviction for gross indecency and for practising homosexual acts.
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Books by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
His only novel, full of quotable lines.