I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
<em>— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)</em>

"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
<em>— Churchill's response</em>

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