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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 16, 2008
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
S p o n s o r e d   L i n k [Buy a text ad here]
What Wouldn't Jesus Do?
Funny T-Shirts from Busted Tees
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