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Company. According to the foreword by Lord Gorell, the handwritten manuscript was discovered in a piece of furniture by one John Murray in 1919, and ten years later shown to the editors of
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The work consists of aphorisms, wisecracks, and longer-form descriptions of general subjects and personality types. The contents are arranged by subject, as follows:
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is an anonymous 18th-century manuscript that was discovered and published in 1930. The American edition was published by
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