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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 29, 2019
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)  
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)  
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
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Robert Chapman  
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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