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As years come in and years go out

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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Many words have no legal meaning. Others have a legal meaning very unlike their ordinary meaning. For example, the word “daffy-down-dilly.” It is a criminal libel to call a lawyer a “daffy-down-dilly.” Ha! Yes, I advise you never to do such a thing. No, I certainly advise you never to do it.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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I admit it is better fun to punt than to be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

Gaudy Night (1935)

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To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing.

Gaudy Night

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How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Gaudy Night

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The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.
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As I grow older and older, and totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.
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Who goes to bed with whom.
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Sex is every man’s loco spot.
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What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
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