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"The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles."
"My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she'll end up taking over."
"She complains that I'm lazy, but I just like to save my energy for dinner."
"Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones."
"And are you going to explain why you consider competing with me to be the most sincere form of compliment? "Of course I am, Lightsong said. "My dear, have you ever known me to make an inflammatorily ridiculous statement without providing an equally ridiculous explanation to substantiate it? "Of course not, she agreed. "You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic. "I am rather exceptional in that regard."
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"You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine."
"Eternity is a ham and two people (also given as 'Eternity is two people and a ham') is an old quip from the days when a ham was huge-far more than two people could finish. Irma Rombauer mentions this line in her famous cookbook, The Joy of Cooking."
"I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, 'How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree."
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."
"She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age."
"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
"It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day."
"Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night."
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