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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 21, 2009
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
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Ethel Mumford
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