Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 19, 2021
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)  
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952  
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)  
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
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Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)  
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