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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 02, 2012
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876  
'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'
'Well, that would be a start.'
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Peter Stone, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade", 1963  
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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e e cummings (1894 - 1962)  
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
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Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)  
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