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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

— Oliver Herford Attributed Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955)

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Source: Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.
Work: Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms, 1955
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