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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 12, 2009
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
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Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"
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