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King of France to Marie Antoinette:
My future looks awfully bleak. I suspect
I’ll soon be headed for the guillotine. 
“Mon chère: forgive my correction
on your use of the wrong preposition.
It’s not “FOR” but “BY” the guillotine.”

Copyright © Maurice Rigoler

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