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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 04, 2024
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)  
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )  
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "You Never Can Tell" (1898), act I  
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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E. W. Dijkstra  
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