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- Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
- Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy
- There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- 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
- The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
- Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
- It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
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