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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
All great truths begin as blasphemies.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Annajanska (1919)
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)
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