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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
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Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
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One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
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