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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 23, 2025
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)  
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
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Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction  
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)  
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
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John le Carre (1931 - ), "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8, 1974  
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