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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 9, 2024
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave  
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
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Art Buchwald (1925 - 2007)  
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)  
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We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts as our own, but they probably are.
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James Harvey Robinson  
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