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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 14, 2026
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)  
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)  
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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
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Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985  
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
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Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)  
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