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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 8, 2025
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)  
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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
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Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"  
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave  
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
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E. B. White (1899 - 1985), Some Remarks on Humor, introduction  
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