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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 11, 2017
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)  
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
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Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881  
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)  
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