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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 1, 2026
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
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Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)  
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)  
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
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Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)  
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson  
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