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"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."
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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."

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"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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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."

"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."

"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."

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"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."
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