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Every day for at least ten years together did my father resolve to have it mended -- 'tis not mended yet; -- no family but ours would have borne with it an hour -- -- -and what is most astonishing, there was not a subject in the world upon which my father was so eloquent, as upon that of door-hinges.
-- -- -And yet at the same time, he was certainly one of the greatest bubbles to them, I think, that history can produce: his rhetorick and conduct were at perpetual handy-cuffs.