From Rookery Nook, by Ben Travers:

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MRS. LEVERETT:

I am a working wife and mother, and there at home waiting for me is my five children and cetera, not to mention my husband and what not.

GERALD:

Oh, you've got five children and a what-not...

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MRS. LEVERETT:

I may as well show you the house and quit.

GERALD:

Where's the quit?

MRS. LEVERETT:

Quit. Go. I'll go.

GERALD:

Oh, go. You'll go. Good! Yes, thanks very much. I see. Quit--I thought you meant the quit was some sort of--well, I mean, quit--it might be anything.

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From Thark, by Ben Travers:

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KITTY:

Ronny, I’m terribly upset.

RONNY:

I know—I’m always upsetting someone or something. I upset a basin this morning. That’s a terrible thing to do. Nothing’s worse than a basin when it’s upset. It either breaks into small pieces, or else it runs round the room on the bias.