“To kill a relative of whom you are tired, is something; but to inherit his property afterwards — that is a real pleasure!”

— Honoré de Balzac

Tuer un parent de qui l’on se plaint, c’est quelque chose; mais hériter de lui, c’est là un plaisir!
cousin Pons http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Cousin_Pons_-_5#XLVI._Consultation_non_gratuiteLe (1847), translated by Ellen Marriage, ch. XLVI.

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Tuer un parent de qui l’on se plaint, c’est quelque chose; mais hériter de lui, c’est là un plaisir!

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