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When Richard Baxter lost his wife, he published a broadsheet, headed Last Words of Mrs. Baxter, which had an immense sale. The printer, for his own profit, brought out a spurious broadsheet, headed More Last Words; but Baxter issued a small handbill with this concise sentence: “Mrs. Baxter did not say anything else.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Moral
Moralist
Moran’s Collar
Morasteen [great stone]
Morat
Moratorium
Moravians or Bohemian Brethren
Morbleu! (French)
More
More Kicks than Hapence
More Last Words
More of More Hall
More the Merrier (The)
More one has, the More he Desires (The)
Moreno
Morestone
Morgan le Fay
Morgan le Fay, Morgaine la Fée, or Morgana the Fairy
Morganatic Marriage (A)
Morgane
Morgans