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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 27, 2025
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)  
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)  
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
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Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)  
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