Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 24, 2012
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)  
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727  
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
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Saki (1870 - 1916)  
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)  
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