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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 16, 2014
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )  
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)  
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1  
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)  
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