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Did you think "I'll say so" was new slang? Well, it isn't. You will find
it in Sterne's "Sentimental Journey."
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Formula for accepting a second cigar from a man whose taste in tobacco
is poor: "Thank you; the courtesy is not _all_ yours."
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A number of suicides are attributed to the impending conjunction of the
planets and the menace of world-end. You can interest anybody in
astronomy if you can establish for him a connection between his personal
affairs and the movements of the stars.
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