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All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.

— Alexander Woollcott

A chocolate cake slice beside two cream-colored cubes and a gold key on a burgundy background.
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The speaker puts every favorite activity into an unwelcome category. Pairing immoral and illegal with fattening gives the list a comic change of scale. Pleasure is set against disapproval in several forms, making personal taste sound inconveniently at odds with what is considered acceptable.

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