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For a play: If only you would say something funny. But for twenty
years we have lived together and you have always talked of serious
things; I hate serious things.
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A cook, with a cigarette in her mouth, lies: "I studied at a high
school ... I know what for the earth is round."
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"Society for finding and raising anchors of steamers and barges," and
the Society's agent at all functions without fail makes a speech, à la
N., and without fail promises.
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Super-mysticism.
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When I become rich, I shall have a harem in which I shall keep fat
naked women, with their buttocks painted green.
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A shy young man came on a visit for the night: suddenly a deaf old
woman came into his room, carrying a cupping-glass, and bled him; he
thought that this must be the usual thing and so did not protest; in
the morning it turned out that the old woman had made a mistake.
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Surname: Verstax.
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The more stupid the peasant, the better does the horse understand him.