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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 6, 2026
The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
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Martin Mull (1943 - )  
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
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P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money  
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967  
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935  
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