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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?: Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"
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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.: C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.: Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.: Robertson Davies
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He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.: Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.: Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.: Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.: Lynda Barry
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