unearths some literary gems.
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"A Super is paid to keep his feet on the carpet, his seat on his chair and his head should be a box marked 'Members Only.'"
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He had a large friendly face and practically no top to his head, so that the peaked cap which lay by his elbow suggested the lid of a mustard pot.
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From Allingham's Pearls Before Swine:
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"He had a way not so much of smiling as of hinting that he was about to smile which lent his face a pleasant uncertainty."
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"You always felt she was just about to be terribly witty and yet she never was."
