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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 09, 2025
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), quoted in Observer, March 29 1981  
It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.
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Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Statement at the Battle of Fredericksburg (13th December 1862)  
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)  
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
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Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), Comedy Central Presents  
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