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Then ask them to describe some fanciful character about whom you make a general statement, as, for example, “He was the most amusing man I ever saw in my life,” or, “He was certainly the most dignified man in appearance and the best-dressed man I ever saw.”
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester

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