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Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my sentence without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams somewhat longer for a paradox.

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Peter De Vries
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 27
Died: 1993
Died: September 28
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All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
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... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.
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Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
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I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
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The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
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You ought to be ashamed, a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. Your race gave us our religion... From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods, the woman continued a little more eruditely, the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one. Which is just a step from the truth, said Stein.
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