unearths some literary gems.
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"I can hardly believe that you came down to this place merely to take off a bit of weight."
"Quite."
"You and your 'quites'! I always think that 'quite' is the most aggravating word in the language."
"Quite."
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The joke was that ever since the business of the "Z" Waller had found himself using Z's all over the place. "Wizard"... "Puzzled"... "Maze."
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It would have been pleasing to produce an epigram about the vital relevance of irrelevancy, but he resisted the temptation.
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If Mr. Green had not had his filet steak, our story might have slowed down, might even have meandered to an inconclusive semicolon.
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Moral problems, he decided, were best tackled out of doors.
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"I have a certain proprietary affection for my mind, such as it is."
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[I've encountered this before, in a Leo Bruce novel--the treatment of four-letter words as, instead, one-letter words.]
"I've heard some language in my life, seeing as I've served behind the bar in the old days, and what I don't know about the B's and the F's isn't worth knowing."
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