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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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