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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 14, 2011
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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Ted Morgan  
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)  
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
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Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)  
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005  
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