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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 9, 2025
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
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Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)  
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)  
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4  
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Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)  
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