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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 May 31, 2021

“The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.”—Charles Eliot Norton, American author, 1827-1908

Posted on May 28, 2021May 28, 2021

“People of the same trade are friendly.”—Irish proverb

Posted on May 27, 2021

“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.”—Lily Tomlin, American comedian, 1939-

Posted on May 25, 2021May 25, 2021

“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”—Jane Ellice Hopkins, British social activist, 1836-1904

Posted on May 22, 2021

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on May 21, 2021May 21, 2021

“One keeps on forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.”—Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette), French author, 1873-1954

Posted on May 20, 2021

“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.”—George R. R. Martin, American novelist, 1948-

Posted on May 19, 2021May 19, 2021

“It is easier to make war than peace.”—Georges Clemenceau, French Prime Minister, 1841-1929

Posted on May 18, 2021May 18, 2021

“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”—Henry Brooks Adams, American historian, 1838-1918

Posted on May 17, 2021

“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”—Sir William Osler, Canadian medical educator, 1849-1919

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