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The New Yale Book of Quotations

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)

To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing.

Gaudy Night

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.
Sex is every man’s loco spot.
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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