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The Daily Extract™/Proverbium Seniorum™ is a Commonplace Book in the form of a Blog of Quotations, Epigrams, and Excerpts. It can be found at https://proverbiumseniorum.blog/ Engraving: “Odin in the guise of a wanderer," 1886, Georg von Rosen (1843-1923)

Posted on August 8, 2025August 7, 2025

“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on July 9, 2025

“The Congress shall have Power To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts….”—Article I, Section 8, Clause 8; U.S. Constitution

Posted on June 9, 2025

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president, 1882-1945

Posted on June 6, 2025June 6, 2025

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC

Posted on May 24, 2025

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.”—(“Julius Caesar”), William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616

Posted on May 9, 2025May 9, 2025

“Being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune….Happiness is never grand.”—Aldous Huxley, English philosopher, 1894-1963

Posted on March 24, 2025

“The difference between bad speech and bad deeds is opportunity.”—Quintilian, Roman rhetorician, 1st century AD

Posted on March 22, 2025

“There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC

Posted on March 20, 2025

“Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.”—Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479

Posted on March 13, 2025March 12, 2025

“No man is lonely while eating spaghetti—it requires so much attention.”—Christopher Morley, American journalist, 1890-1957

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