unearths some literary gems.
From stories by Israel Zangwill:
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[from "Mated by a Waiter"]
"The motto must be, 'Extravaganzas without extravagance, or farces economically conducted.'"
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[from "The Memory Clearing House"]
"letter perfect and postcard secure"
[plus three attachments from this piece: two eureka!s and a same joke]
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[from "A Double-Barrelled Ghost"]
"I went to see [Dr. Johnson] again, but he received me with epigrams."
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[ditto]
"But I don't feel at all sure it stands the ghost of a chance." [...]
"It is the only chance of a ghost."
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[from "Vagaries of a Viscount"]
Then he fell back on an ottoman, and laughed till the whiskers ran down his sides.
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[Bonus story title: "The Semi-Sentimental Dragon"]
