Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 06, 2015
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare  
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950)  
We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.
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W. H. Thompson  
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