"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."
-Alphonse Karr
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"I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.“
-Alphonse Karr
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