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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 6, 2025
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)  
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny  
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  
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Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-04-10  
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