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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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My favorite animal is steak.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.: Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.: John Gunther (1901 - 1970)
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self-Reliance
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.: Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
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