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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 07, 2014
You can observe a lot just by watching.
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Yogi Berra (1925 - ), Berra's Law  
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819  
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)  
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
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Calvin Trillin (1935 - )  
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