Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 10, 2025
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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Robertson Davies  
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Gian Vincenzo Gravina (1664 - 1718)  
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
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David T. Wolf (1943 - )  
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Nicholas Butler (1862 - 1947)  
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