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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 14, 2018
Nothing fails like success.
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Gerald Nachman  
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I  
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)  
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011  
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