Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 26, 2024
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)  
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)  
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
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Anonymous  
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791  
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