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“You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.”
Note on a thesis draft, where a graduate student who had used "hopefully" to mean "it is to be hoped"; published in Robertson Davies : Man of Myth (1994) edited by Judith Skelton Grant
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