Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 21, 2015
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)  
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)  
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
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Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)  
Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way.
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Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008  
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