Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 02, 2025
I am not young enough to know everything.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)  
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)  
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)  
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)  
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