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  1. Newsgroups: alt.quotations
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!news.den.mmc.com!iplmail!daveo
  3. From: daveo@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Dave Ousley)
  4. Subject: Re: This should have been the first post here.
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.121613.22640@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
  6. Sender: daveo@iplmail (Dave Ousley)
  7. Organization: UMRK
  8. References:  <1992Dec22.213204.9240@news2.cis.umn.edu>
  9. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:16:13 GMT
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  13. Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, 
  14. their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
  15.                                                 - Oscar Wilde
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  17. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come 
  18. back to us with a certain alienated majesty.    - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  20. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
  21.                                                 - Maugham
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