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Jeanne la postière: They're pathetic. What do they know? They've got it all. Their biggest worry is what color car to buy. Or which cousin stole half the inheritance. I'd be happy with a tenth of what they have. I'd have the life I wanted, instead of just the opposite.
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Georges Lelievre: [referring, respectively, to Sophie the illiterate maid and Jeanne the nosy postal clerk] What a pair: one can't read at all, and the other reads our mail.
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Man at Melinda's birthday party: Speaking of quotes, I have one that's less famous, but quite troubling. "There are aspects of good people I find loathsome, least of all the evil within them."
Woman at Melinda's birthday party: My God... Who said that?
Georges Lelievre: Nietzsche.
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Sophie la bonne: [to Melinda, after Melinda has discovered that Sophie's illiterate, and wants to help] If you say a word to anybody, I'll tell your dad you're pregnant. If you talk, I'll tell. I'm not the bitch, you are. Mind your own business.
[Melinda, stunned, walks out]
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