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• The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
• It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily…
• Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
• If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
• Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
• Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it;…
• We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
• Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

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