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To consult the Book of Numbers is to call for a division of the House, or to put a question to the vote. (Parliamentary wit.)
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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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