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When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

— Sacha Guitry Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998)

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When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy.

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Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.

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You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

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The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

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