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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 30, 2015
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), "The Call of Cthulhu", first line  
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)  
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915  
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791  
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