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- To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- Quentin Crisp
- The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
- It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
- P. D. James
- It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
- There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
- To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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