"Asking Theodore Hook what sort of a looking man the dramatist and author Planché was, "Short and bald," Thoms replied: "he used to cut his hair, but now his hair has cut him.""
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Playwrights from EnglandFellows of the Society of Antiquaries of LondonGenealogistsPeople from the City of Westminster
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W. J. Thoms, in The Nineteenth Century (December 1881); quoted in S. A. Bent (ed.) Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men, 6th ed. (Boston: Ticknor and Co, 1887) p. 281
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