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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 20, 2026

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

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