All quotes
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. — Jonathan Swift（Attribution unverified） |
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. — Fyodor Dostoevsky（Attribution unverified） |
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The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel（Attribution unverified） |
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. — Mark Twain（Attribution unverified） |
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. — Mark Twain（Attribution unverified） |
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Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today? — Russell Lynes（Attribution unverified） |
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99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. — Steven Wright（Attribution unverified） |
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. — Katharine Hepburn（Attribution unverified） |
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Stay with me; I want to be alone — Joey Lauren Adams（Attribution unverified） |
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Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. — Ashleigh Brilliant（Attribution unverified） |
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. — P. J. O'Rourke（Attribution unverified） |
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I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. — Ashleigh Brilliant（Attribution unverified） |
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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. — Rufus Choate（Attribution unverified） |
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Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. — Peter Hook（Attribution unverified） |
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. — Steven Wright（Attribution unverified） |
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. — Mark Twain（Attribution unverified） |
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We have the best government that money can buy. — Mark Twain（Attribution unverified） |
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In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming. — Alanis Morissette（Attribution unverified） |
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I intend to live forever. So far, so good. — Steven Wright（Attribution unverified） |
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. — Thomas Carlyle（Attribution unverified） |