“Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.”

Rothschild’s Fiddle (1894)

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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904

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