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"My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she'll end up taking over."
"Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example."
"This is a lot more satisfying," he said, "when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt with attention for my clever verbosity."The ugly lizard-crab-thing on the next rock over clicked its claw, an almost hesitant sound."Your right, of course," Wit said. "My usual audience isn't particularly intelligent. That was also the obvious joke, however, so shame on you."
"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."
"Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years."
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"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."
"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."
"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday."
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