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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.

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I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

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No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.

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I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

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...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

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