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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 03, 2014
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)  
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface  
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)  
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)  
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