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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 07, 2014
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)  
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
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Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)  
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)  
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Ecce Homo, Foreword  
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