Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 08, 2023
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876  
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)  
No human thing is of serious importance.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)  
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)  
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