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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 30, 2015
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)  
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
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Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)  
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
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John Adams (1735 - 1826)  
That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929  
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