Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 24, 2014
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)  
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)  
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)  
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
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Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)  
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