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“Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.”
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“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
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“To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.”
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“Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
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