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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 01, 2009

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Black Cottage

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