"Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance."
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"If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world."
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"Cleverness becomes a public nuisance."
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"Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life."
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"Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the public, and created a breach of the peace and public order."
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