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Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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