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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 21, 2021

“Wit is the only wall…Between us and the dark.”—Mark Van Doren, American poet, 1894-1972

Posted on August 20, 2021August 20, 2021

“Time cancels young pain.”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC

Posted on August 19, 2021

“Dare to be naive.”—Richard Buckminster Fuller, American designer & futurist, 1895-1983

Posted on August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

“With wine comes truth.”—Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus), Roman naturalist, 23/24 AD-79 AD

Posted on August 17, 2021

“A diplomat…is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.”—Caskie Stinnett, American humorist, 1911-1998

Posted on August 16, 2021August 16, 2021

“Laugh at life. Do not cry over it.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC-65 AD

Posted on August 15, 2021August 15, 2021

“Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”—Bernard Baruch, American financier, 1870-1965

Posted on August 14, 2021August 14, 2021

“I see and praise better things; I do worse ones.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC-18 AD

Posted on August 13, 2021August 13, 2021

“The public don’t know what they want; it’s my job to tell them.”—Alec Issigonis, British automotive designer, 1906-1988

Posted on August 12, 2021August 12, 2021

“Nothing is so well fortified that money cannot capture it.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC

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