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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 31, 2017
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)  
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)  
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cat's Cradle"  
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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George Steiner  
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