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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 8, 2008
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
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Tommy Cooper
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
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Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
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George Carlin (1937 - 2008)

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