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Daily dialogue — September 3, 2008

“Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You better beat it – I hear they’re going to tear you down and put up an office building where you’re standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can’t get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that’s too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. You know, you haven’t stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.”

Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx), Duck Soup (1933), story by Bert Halmar and Harry Ruby, additional dialogue by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman

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