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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 20, 2009
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), My Early Life, 1930
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
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William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
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Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
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