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" A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. "
George Jean Nathan
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" I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. "
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" Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. "
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