Mezzo replacement

Kitty: I was reading a book the other day.

Carlotta: Reading a book!

Kitty: Yes. It’s all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?

Carlotta: Oh, my dear, that’s something you need never worry about.

Dinner at Eight, 1933

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