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One would think that a scissors and pastepot collection like this

One would think that a scissors and pastepot collection like this would require little help. Not true. A tribe of hunters and gatherers is required: there is so much to be seen for so little selected. – Robert Irvine Fitzhenry (1918–2008), The Harper Book of Quotations

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A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. – E.M. Cioran

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