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But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., letter, 1923
Posted on December 16, 1998 at 3:57 PM
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