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THEOPHILUS CIBBER, who was very extravagant, one day asked his father
for a hundred pounds. Zounds, sir, said Colly, can't you live upon
your salary? When I was your age, I never spent a farthing of my
father's money.--But you have spent a great deal of my father's,
replied Theophilus. This retort had the desired effect.
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