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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 26, 2026
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
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Robertson Davies  
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary  
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)  
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God help those who do not help themselves.
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Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)  
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