A bride to an engineer: a dynamite cartridge filled with
one-hundred-rouble notes.

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"I have not read Herbert Spencer. Tell me his subjects. What does
he write about?" "I want to paint a panel for the Paris exhibition.
Suggest a subject." (A wearisome lady.)

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The idle, so-called governing, classes cannot remain long without war.
When there is no war they are bored, idleness fatigues and irritates
them, they do not know what they live for; they bite one another, try
to say unpleasant things to one another, if possible with impunity,
and the best of them make the greatest efforts not to bore the others
and themselves. But when war comes, it possesses all, takes hold of
the imagination, and the common misfortune unites all.

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An unfaithful wife is a large cold cutlet which one does not want to
touch, because some one else has had it in his hands.

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An old maid writes a treatise: "The tramline of piety."

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