The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer’s time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.
Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat – it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older – as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice “at the closing of the day”. I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.