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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 17, 2026
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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Muhammad Ali (1942 - )  
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I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927), "Three Men in a Boat", 1889  
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
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E. B. White (1899 - 1985), Some Remarks on Humor, introduction  
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There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)  
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