Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 10, 2023
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
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Harry Shearer  
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)  
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
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Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)  
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)  
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