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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 26, 2016

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.: William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?: Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"

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