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The lady in the advert had been smiling. Lawrence Hollingsworth knew that because he had observed her to part her lips and to steadfastly display her fine white teeth.

Hollis Beddoes, Counting the Magpies.

Slipped under a favorite specimen in his collection of antique cameras was a blank business card with this message scribbled in ink: “A modest impediment to cultural entropy, well-loved and understood to be temporary.”

Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.