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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 18, 2024
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)  
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"  
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)  
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  
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