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" I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might. "
Joseph Epstein
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" The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section. "
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" My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't. "
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