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Every barber knows that
“Omnibus notum tonsoribus.”
Horace: 1 Satires, VII. 3.
In Rome the tonstriʹnæ or barbersʹ shops were the fashionable resort of loungers and idlers. Here every scandal was known, and all the talk of the town was repeated.
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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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