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Page iii
Nearly all these new and old friends have before this made their bow in print and since it rarely was certain where they first appeared , little attempt has been made to credit any source for them . The compilers hereby make a sweeping ...
Nearly all these new and old friends have before this made their bow in print and since it rarely was certain where they first appeared , little attempt has been made to credit any source for them . The compilers hereby make a sweeping ...
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So a joke is not to be recognized even by its appearance or by the company it keeps . Perhaps there might be established a test of good usage . A joke would be that at which the best people laugh . Somebody - was it Mark Twain ?
So a joke is not to be recognized even by its appearance or by the company it keeps . Perhaps there might be established a test of good usage . A joke would be that at which the best people laugh . Somebody - was it Mark Twain ?
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Cicero said of Antonius , “ All his speeches were , in appearance , the unpremeditated effusion of an honest heart ; and yet , in reality , they were preconceived with so much skill that the judges were not so well prepared as they ...
Cicero said of Antonius , “ All his speeches were , in appearance , the unpremeditated effusion of an honest heart ; and yet , in reality , they were preconceived with so much skill that the judges were not so well prepared as they ...
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On one occasion the actor was appearing in his native town , and remembered an old negro and his wife , who had been body servants in his father's household , with a couple of seats in the theatre . As it happened , he was playing the ...
On one occasion the actor was appearing in his native town , and remembered an old negro and his wife , who had been body servants in his father's household , with a couple of seats in the theatre . As it happened , he was playing the ...
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In a North of England town recently a company of local amateurs produced Hamlet , and the following account of the proceedings appeared in the local paper next morning : " Last night all the fashionables and elite of our town gathered ...
In a North of England town recently a company of local amateurs produced Hamlet , and the following account of the proceedings appeared in the local paper next morning : " Last night all the fashionables and elite of our town gathered ...
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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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