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

January 1, 1970

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To kill a relative of whom you are tired, is something; but to inherit his property afterwards — that is a real pleasure! — cousin Pons (1847), translated by Ellen Marriage, ch. XLVI