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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 07, 2016
I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
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New York City detective  
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)  
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
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Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)  
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)  
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