unearths some literary gems.
From The Case of the Duplicate Daughter, by Erle Stanley Gardner:
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“Somehow you’re not the type that one associates with afternoons of dillydallying.”
“I was neither dillying nor dallying,” Mason said.
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"I met a very pompous young man who takes himself very, very seriously indeed; a man who is saturated with college economics, with the analysis of financial trends, who would exude stock-market quotations as a wrestler would exude perspiration."
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“They could perhaps remove evidence or think things over a little bit, or sometimes they might even slip out of the side exit door and then their secretary would be able to say quite truthfully that the man I wanted to see was gone and she didn’t know just where he could be located.
“I think I’ve got my singulars and plurals all mixed up there somehow, Mason, but I’m quite certain you get the idea.”
