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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 September 24, 2021

“Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.”—John Wayne (in his “Advice on acting”), American actor, 1907-1979

Posted on September 23, 2021September 22, 2021

“Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC

Posted on September 21, 2021

“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”—Anatole France, French man-of-letters, 1844-1924

Posted on September 20, 2021

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC

Posted on September 19, 2021September 19, 2021

” ‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on September 18, 2021September 18, 2021

“What is a friend? Another I.”—Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher, c. 495–c. 430 BC

Posted on September 17, 2021September 17, 2021

“Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hitting.”—Lawrence Peter (“Yogi”) Berra, American professional baseball catcher, 1925-2015

Posted on September 16, 2021September 15, 2021

“We can learn even from our enemies.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC to 18 AD

Posted on September 13, 2021

“A critic ought now and then to hesitate.”—Irving Howe, American literary critic, 1920-1993

Posted on September 11, 2021

“Those who can sin in secret do so more quickly.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

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