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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 8, 2026
Man always gets less than he demands from life.
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Jack London (1876 - 1916), The People of the Abyss  
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1  
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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game"  
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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)  
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