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Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian PM, dies at 86 (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice saying, though in all honesty I can think of a long list of people I'd want dead.

I think there's frankly something wrong with not wishing death on - say - Bashar Al-Assad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True. The actual quote was said by Clarence Darrow;

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."

But the part that's usually mis-quoted makes more sense in the format that people commonly use.