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How aggravating!—Indeed? what does it aggravate?
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So I ascended up.—Ingenious man, doubling your speed like that.
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I had to do it; I was in an engagement.—Like Xenophon’s hoplites.
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I got round him.—Comprehensive person.
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They went to law, but were compounded.—You don’t say they didn’t get apart again?
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He would apply the same delicate treatment to people unsound in their Attic.
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‘That’s the truth of it,’ said some one, ‘between you and I.'
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‘Ah no, you will have to admit that you and me are wrong there.’
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Another person giving a circumstantial account of a local legend said: ‘So when she mingled with Heracles—’ ‘Without Heracles’s mingling with her?’
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He asked a man who told him that he must have a close crop, what his particular felony had been.
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‘There I quarrel,’ said his opponent in an argument. ‘It takes two to make a quarrel.’
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When some one described his sick servant as undergomg torture, he asked, ‘What for? what do they suppose they are going to get out of him?’
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Some one was said to be going ahead in his studies. ‘Let me see,’ he said; ‘it is Plato, I think, who calls that making progress.’
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'Will we have a fine day?'' ‘If God shall.’
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‘Archaist, curse not thy friend!’ he retorted, to a man who called him curst instead of crusty.
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A man once used the phrase, ‘I was trying to save his face.’ ‘But is he in any danger of losing it?’ asked Socrates.
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'Chided,’ said one man, ‘chode,’ another. He disclaimed all acquaintance with either form.
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A person who volunteered ‘but and if’ was commended for his generosity.
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Some one tried him with ‘y-pleased’; ‘no, no,’ said he; 'that is too much of a good thing.’
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‘I expect him momently,’ some one announced. ‘A good phrase,’ he said; ‘so is “minutely”; we have excellent authority for “daily.” ’
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'Look you!’ said a man, meaning ‘look.’ ‘Yes, what am I to look you at?’
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He took up a man who said, ‘Yes, I can grapple with that,’ meaning that he understood, with ‘Oh, you are going to throw me, are you? how?’
