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"When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence."
"Casanova"
(04/02/1725 – 04/06/1798)
Italian writer (died near his birthday)

"Written by a mad poet. One goes crazy oneself if reading this book." Hans Christian Andersen
(04/02/1805 – 08/04/1875)
Danish writer , on Ibsen's "Peer Gynt"

"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco." Emile Zola
(04/02/1840 – 09/28/1902)
French writer

"America is the best half-educated country in the world." Nicholas Murray Butler
(04/02/1862 – 12/07/1947)
US educator

"I believe it has been said that one copy of "The Times" contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides." Richard Cobden
(06/03/1804 – 04/02/1865)
English politician

"But I'm not so think as you drunk I am." Sir J(ohn). C(ollings). Squire
(04/02/1882 – 12/20/1958)
English journalist

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." Kurt Herbert Adler
(04/02/1905 – 02/09/1988)
Austrian opera director

"If brains were lard, Jethro couldn't grease a pan." Buddy Ebsen
(04/02/1908 – 07/06/2003)
US dancer, actor

"My contribution to film has always been negligible." Sir Alec Guinness
(04/02/1919 – 08/05/2000)
English actor

"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." Serge Gainsbourg
(04/02/1928 – 03/02/1991)
French singer

"The more revolutions occur, the less things change." Georgie Anne Geyer
(04/02/1935 – )
US columnist

"Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell." Marvin Gaye
(04/02/1939 – 04/01/1984)
US singer, songwriter (died near his birthday)

"Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does." Emmylou Harris
(04/02/1947 – )
US singer, songwriter

"Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist." Camille Paglia
(04/02/1947 – )
US writer

"People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.00." Pete Incaviglia
(04/02/1964 – )
US baseball player

"There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling, and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians." Georges Pompidou
(07/05/1911 – 04/02/1974)
French President

"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision." Pope John Paul II
(05/18/1920 – 04/02/2005)
Polish religious leader

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