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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 11, 2026
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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Anonymous  
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
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Samuel McChord Crothers  
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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
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H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), 1903  
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
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Russell Green  
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