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It's the standard contract. Gives you seven wishes in accordance with the mystic rules of life. Seven Days of the Week, Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Seas, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...

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  1. What terrible sins I have working for me. I suppose it's the wages.
  2. Now, then, what'd you like to be first? Prime Minister? Oh, no - I've made that deal already.
  3. You realize that suicide's a criminal offense - In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.
  4. The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.
  5. You fill me with inertia.
  6. There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas... I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with …
  7. You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained... I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at…
  8. Job was what you'd technically describe as a loony.

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