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All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.

— Tom Sharpe The Throwback (1984)

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I have yet to meet a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the inessentials.

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By shooting your cook you were refusing him permission to enter your house.

Riotous Assembly (1971)

His had been an intellectual decision founded on his conviction that if a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

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While he lived a violent life in his imagination, Eva, lacking any imagination at all, lived violently in fact.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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