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unearths some literary gems.
From "The Dancing Barber," by Charles Selby:
***Betty: There's a young man as lives just opposite us--Narcissus Fitzfrizzle, hair-dresser, perfurmer, and ceterum, and ceterum--all sorts of wigs on the newest percussion principles.[A quick Google Books search suggests that "and ceterum" is indeed a novel twist.]***Mr. Snaply: Oh, you saw him yesterday in the Park, did you?Dunderhead Twaddle: Yes, fine old fellow--choice spirit.Mr. Snaply: If you saw him yesterday he must be a very choice spirit, for he has been dead these ten years.***
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