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So I went to Quidlibet's, you know Quidlibet and that hieroglyphic sign of his with the omniscient-looking eye as its most prominent feature, and laid my case before him. I want you, said I, to look up an old book of mighty little value, one of your ten-cent vagabonds would be the sort of thing, but an old beggar, with a cover like this, and lay it by for me.

Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Poet at the Breakfast-Table

So I went to Quidlibet's, you know Quidlibet and that hieroglyphic sign of his with the omniscient-looking eye as its most prominent feature, and laid my case before him. I want you, said I, to look up an old book of mighty little value, one of your ten-cent vagabonds would be the sort of thing, but an old beggar, with a cover like this, and lay it by for me.

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