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“Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for my hesitation in rising just now, but to tell you the simple truth, I'd entirely failed, while listening to the chairman's flattering description of the next speaker, to realize he was talking about me.”
assuming a false identity, making a speech at a political rally
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(The 39 Steps)
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