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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Model Millionaire, 1912
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Only the shallow know themselves.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
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George F. Will (1941 - )
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
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H. H. Williams
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