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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 23, 2025
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)  
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)  
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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
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P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money  
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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Steven Wright (1955 - )  
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