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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 11, 2026
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)  
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson  
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Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
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Solomon Short  
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)  
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