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LORD CHESTERFIELD one day, at an inn where he dined, complained very
much that the plates and dishes were very dirty. The waiter, with a
degree of pertness, observed, It is said every one must eat a peck of
dirt before he dies.--That may be true, said Chesterfield, but no
one is obliged to eat it all at one meal, you dirty dog.
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