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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 3, 2026
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
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Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)  
I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
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Paula Poundstone  
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)  
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)  
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