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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance. - Samuel Richardson Attribution: Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Anna Howe, in Clarissa, vol. 2, p. 168, AMS Press (1990).

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