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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.

— Brian O'Nolan At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)

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Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

The Hair of the Dogma (1977)

Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

The Best of Myles (1968)

"Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable."

The Third Policeman (1967)

"Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder."

The Dalkey archive (1964)

"Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country."

The Best of Myles (1968)

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