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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 14, 2025
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)  
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
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Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)  
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887  
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
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Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )  
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