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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 8, 2026
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)  
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )  
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)  
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
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James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)  
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