Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 27, 2014
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)  
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
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Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)  
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
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Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)  
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
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Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction  
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