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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd stay away.
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Hughes Mearns
Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
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Gallagher
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Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.
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Unknown, Brigader Lethbridge-Stewart in "Dr. Who"
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
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Jewish Proverb
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I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
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Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
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Erica Jong
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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal husband, 1893
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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
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