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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 20, 2025
I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"  
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)  
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)  
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
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Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"  
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