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“I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.” quote by Tom Lehrer — Download Open image

“I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.”

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Example Hmm Literacy Pretentious Proud Proud of myself

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