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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 6, 2026
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)  
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
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Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)  
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), The Little Foxes, 1939  
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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
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Shelley Winters (1922 - 2006)  
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