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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 29, 2025
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)  
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)  
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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William Feather (1908 - 1976)  
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4  
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