unearths some literary gems.
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“And he accepted your kind offer of cooperation?” I asked.
“‘Cooperation’’s such a nasty word, isn’t it? I prefer to think of it as blackmail.”
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[From The Case of the Hesitant Hostess, by Erle Stanley Gardner:]
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[A silly outcome of the convention whereby judges refer to themselves in the third person as "this Court."]
"This Court wasn't born yesterday."
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