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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 13, 2015
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)  
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
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James Magary  
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)  
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
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Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)  
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