“I wake up in the morning and seem to hear some one in the house sighing and saying that last night some one died. I immediately ask to find out who it is, and learn that it is the sharpest, most calculating fellow in town. Ah, is this not happiness?”

—  Jin Shengtan

"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

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Chinese writer 1610–1661

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