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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd stay away.
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Hughes Mearns
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people.
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Adrian Mitchell
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
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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"
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
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