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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 26, 2025

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.: Phillip Lopate
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.: Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)

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