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MR: Cage is different, because Cruise to me is — like “Minority Report” feels futuristic, where it’s like, “I am perfecting manhood.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2022

"Oh, but, Tom, just when I am perfecting my gyroscope!" exclaimed Mr. Swift.

From Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

I am perfecting myself in the "Ode to Eton College" against Thursday, that I may not appear unclassic.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary