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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 08, 2014

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.: James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958), The Silver Stallion, 1926
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.: A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929

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