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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 24, 2016
Only the shallow know themselves.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882  
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
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Andy Rooney (1919 - )  
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)  
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
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Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)  
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