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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 01, 2024
Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )  
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876  
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)  
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946  
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