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... how wise are those writers who hold it an essential for entrance into that most exacting of professions - matrimony ! " Incompatibility in humor , " George Eliot held to be the " most serious cause of diversion .
... how wise are those writers who hold it an essential for entrance into that most exacting of professions - matrimony ! " Incompatibility in humor , " George Eliot held to be the " most serious cause of diversion .
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An Englishman went into his local library and asked for Frederic Harrison's George Washington and other American Addresses . In a little while he brought back the book to the librarian and said : " This book does not give me what I ...
An Englishman went into his local library and asked for Frederic Harrison's George Washington and other American Addresses . In a little while he brought back the book to the librarian and said : " This book does not give me what I ...
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Two old salts who had spent most of their lives on fishing smacks had an argument one day as to which was the better mathematician , " said George C. Wiedenmayer the other day . " Finally the captain of their ship proposed the following ...
Two old salts who had spent most of their lives on fishing smacks had an argument one day as to which was the better mathematician , " said George C. Wiedenmayer the other day . " Finally the captain of their ship proposed the following ...
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CRITIC " By George , old chap , when I look at one of your paintings I stand and wonderARTIST " How I do it ? " CRITIC " No ; why you do it . " 39 He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius : as he must needs ...
CRITIC " By George , old chap , when I look at one of your paintings I stand and wonderARTIST " How I do it ? " CRITIC " No ; why you do it . " 39 He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius : as he must needs ...
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George W. Cable , the southern writer , was visiting a western city where he was invited to inspect the new free library . The librarian conducted the famous writer through the building until they finally reached the department of books ...
George W. Cable , the southern writer , was visiting a western city where he was invited to inspect the new free library . The librarian conducted the famous writer through the building until they finally reached the department of books ...
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| Pealkiri | Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations |
| Editor | Harold Workman Williams |
| Compiled by | Clara Elizabeth Fanning, Harold Workman Williams, Halsey William Wilson |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | H.W. Wilson, 1916 |
| Original from | California Ülikool |
| Digitized | 11 dets. 2007 |
| Length | 483 pages |
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