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SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT once met Quin at a small dinner-party. There was a
delicious pudding, which the master of the house, pushing the dish
towards Quin, begged him to taste. A gentleman had just before helped
himself to an immense piece of it. Pray, said Quin, looking first at
the gentleman's plate and then at the dish, which is the pudding?
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