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• Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines
• Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the…
• We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
• You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
• Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,…
• You must render: never report.
• Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a…
• The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so
• The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
• I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
• The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me…
• To lie about a far country is easy

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