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I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

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Wilson Mizner
Age: 56 †
Born: 1876
Born: May 19
Died: 1933
Died: April 3
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Benicia
California
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Brazen
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Immediate
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Lying

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