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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
Discretion is not the better part of biography.: Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), in Observer April 4, 1989
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All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.: Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004), Dear Me (1977)

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