Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 26, 2022
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)  
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
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Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)  
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
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Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)  
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
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Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )  
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