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I can’t call myself a busy man—unfortunately,” said Horace, with that frankness which scorns to conceal what other people know perfectly well already.

— F. Anstey The Brass Bottle (1900)

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The knowledge that one has a remedy within reach is often as effectual as the remedy itself, if not more so.

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No doubt they would tolerate him now for the Professor’s sake; but who would not rather be ignored than tolerated?

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Models of manly beauty are rare out of novels, and seldom interesting in them.

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Drastic measures is Latin for a whopping.

“Veracity, as thou wilt learn,” answered the Jinnee, “is not invariably the Ship of Safety.”

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