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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 1, 2026
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)  
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel  
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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)  
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
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Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)  
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