Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 11, 2023
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)  
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
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Paul Beatty  
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)  
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
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Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)  
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