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Who said, "Oh, he has splendid new teeth?" -> Eric Wind
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Here's a fun exchange: "Why on earth," he fumed, "did you have to ask that fellow Blorenge, a mummy, a bore, one of the stucco pillars of education?" So, who's the fumer? -> Laurence Clements
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Who tells this little story: "He asks: 'Are you anarchist?' I answer"—time out on the part of the narrator for a spell of cozy mute mirth—" 'First what do we understand under "Anarchism"? Anarchism practical, metaphysical, theoretical, mystical, abstractical, individual, social? When I was young/ I say, 'all this had for me signification/ So we had a very interesting discussion, in consequence of which I passed two whole weeks on Ellis Island?" -> Dr. Hagen
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Who said: "At least, I have sweetened the pill?" -> Dr. Hagen
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Who said: "Was it a mysterious disease that none of his doctors had yet detected? My friend wondered, and I wonder, too?" -> Pnin
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