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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 07, 2008
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
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Herb Caen  
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
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Emile Chartier  
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"  
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
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Charles Mackay  
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