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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money

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