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[Don Quixote]

"the cruellest revenge of a woman is to stay faithful to a man " - Jacques Bossuet.

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lady Astor to Winston Churchill - "if you were my husband i'd poison your coffee !"

Churchill's response - "if you were my wife i'd drink it"

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'my prayer to God is a very short one : "oh Lord, please make my enemies rediculous" God has granted my wish' - Voltair

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the following quotes are from the 'Devils Dictionary' which was written by one of the greatest exponents of cynicism ,and acknowleged master of the art , the American wit Ambrose Bierce -

Cynic - a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are , not as they ought to be.

Admiration - our polite recognition of another's resemblance of ourselves

Antipathy - the sentiment inspired by ones friend' friend.

Charity - an amiable quality of the heart which moves us to condone in others the sins and vices to which we ourselves are addicted.

Commendation - the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble , but do not equal , our own.

Congratulation - the civility of envy.

Defame - to lie about another.to tell the truth about another.

Encourage - to confirm a fool in a folly that is beginning to hurt him.

Forbidden - invested with a new and irrisistable charm.

Forgiveness - a strategem to throw an offender off his guard and catch him red handed in his next offence.

Hatred - a sentiment appropriate to the occasion of anothers superiority.

Impeccable - not liable to detection.

Incomatiblity - in matrimony a similarity of tastes , particularly the taste for domination.

Laziness - unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree

Loquacity - a disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

Mediate - to butt in.

Politeness - the most acceptable hypocracy

Resolute - obstinate in a course that we approve.

Selfish - devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

Zeal - a certain nervous disorder affecting the young and inexperienced.

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[Socrates]