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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 April 13, 2021April 13, 2021

“I’m really a very good man; but I’m a very bad wizard.”—“The Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum, American children’s author, 1856-1919

Posted on April 12, 2021

“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher & polymath, 384-322 BC

Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021

“The best vision is insight.”—Malcolm Forbes, American publisher, 1919-1990

Posted on April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

“Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.”—William Allen White, American newspaper editor, 1868-1944

Posted on April 8, 2021April 8, 2021

“I’ve seen hammers with the handles off cleverer than he is!”—Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman playwright, 254-184 BC

Posted on April 7, 2021April 7, 2021

“Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made.”—Otto von Bismarck (attr.), German statesman, 1815-1898

Posted on April 6, 2021

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”—Albert Einstein, German-born American theoretical physicist, 1879-1955

Posted on April 5, 2021April 5, 2021

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”—Benjamin Spock, MD; American pediatrician & author, 1903-1998

Posted on April 4, 2021April 4, 2021

“Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BC

Posted on April 3, 2021April 3, 2021

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

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