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"Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus.""
"I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much."