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“The report of my death was an exaggeration.
“I can resist everything except temptation.
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
“Football is the only religion that truly doesn't disappoint its fervent believers.
“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
“It's not courage, it's lack of options.
“Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company.
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
“Medical science has made such tremendous advances that there is hardly a healthy human left.
“Common sense is not so common.
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
“If an epitaph were to be written on the human race, it might well be: 'It meant well.'
“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim.
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
“My only crime is to have given liberty to my brothers.
“I buried my money under the biggest stone,' he said. Later, 'There is a bigger stone somewhere else!'