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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 8, 2025
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
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Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)  
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)  
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
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Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)  
A Hospital is no place to be sick.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)  
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