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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 3, 2026
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
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Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), Unkempt Thoughts  
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
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An English Professor, Ohio University  
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
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Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)  
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)  
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