Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 15, 2025
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)  
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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P. D. James  
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)  
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)  
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