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Month: October 2016

Posted on October 31, 2016March 18, 2021

“Extreme law is often extreme injustice.”—Terence, Roman playwright, 2nd century, BC

Posted on October 30, 2016October 30, 2016

“Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.”—Zeuxis, Greek painter

Posted on October 29, 2016October 29, 2016

“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.”—Ernest Dimnet

Posted on October 29, 2016October 29, 2016

“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.”—Titus Maccius Plautus

Posted on October 28, 2016

“An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.”—Alva Johnston, journalist

Posted on October 26, 2016October 26, 2016

“Wine is a peephole on a man.”—Alcaeus of Mytilene

Posted on October 25, 2016October 25, 2016

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”—W. Somerset Maugham

Posted on October 23, 2016October 23, 2016

“The word friend is common, the fact is rare.”—Phaedrus

Posted on October 22, 2016December 26, 2020

“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774

Posted on October 21, 2016October 21, 2016

“The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.”—Arthur Schopenhauer

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