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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 December 7, 2021December 6, 2021

“Life is a gamble at terrible odds; if it were a bet, you would not take it.”—Tom Stoppard, British playwright, 1937-

Posted on December 6, 2021December 5, 2021

“Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.”—John O’Hara, American author, 1905-1970

Posted on December 5, 2021December 4, 2021

“To judge of the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.”—François-Gaston de Levis, French army officer, 1719-1787

Posted on December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

“When the fight begins within himself, a man is worth something.”—Robert Browning, English poet, 1812-1889

Posted on November 28, 2021November 28, 2021

“Marriage is but a necessary evil.”—Menander, Greek dramatist, 342-291 BC

Posted on November 27, 2021

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”—Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Irish novelist, 1855-1897

Posted on November 24, 2021November 24, 2021

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”—Henry James, American author, 1843-1916

Posted on November 22, 2021

“Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain.”—Friedrich von Schiller, German philosopher, 1759-1805

Posted on November 21, 2021November 22, 2021

“Life is made up of marble and mud.”—Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist, 1804-1864

Posted on November 20, 2021November 20, 2021

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”—Søren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855

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