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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."
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"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
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"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
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"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."
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"Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt."
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"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
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"Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you."
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""There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel.""
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"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
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"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."
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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
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""Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy.""
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"I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead."
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"If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood."
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"Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it."
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"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
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"The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid."
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"People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver."
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