Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must … - Charles Dickens

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Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

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Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.

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