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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 11, 2009
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
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Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
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William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
How my achievements mock me!
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV
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