Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
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The more things change, the more they are the same.
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Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
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