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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 12, 2025
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
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Tom Masson  
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
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Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"  
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)  
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I  
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