“The man who kan ware a paper collar a hole week and keap, it klean, aint fit for enny thing else.”
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
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“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
Source: Written on the Body
Tel homme qui dans un excès de mélancolie se tue aujourd’hui aimerait à vivre s’il attendait huit jours.
"Cato" http://www.voltaire-integral.com/Html/18/caton.htm (1764)
Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
“The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it--would.”
Note quotation marks: Littlewood is repeating a joke without attribution. "Cross-purposes, Unconscious Assumptions, Howlers, Misprints, etc.", p. 59.
Littlewood's Miscellany (1986)
