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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 16, 2016

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.: Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
A cult is a religion with no political power.: Tom Wolfe (1931 - )
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.: Robertson Davies
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)

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