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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 June 7, 2021June 7, 2021

“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BCE

Posted on June 6, 2021June 6, 2021

“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.”—Henry Brooks Adams, American historian, 1838-1918

Posted on June 6, 2021June 5, 2021

“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”—John Morley, British statesman, 1838-1923

Posted on June 4, 2021

“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935

Posted on June 2, 2021June 2, 2021

“Any man who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can’t afford one.”—John Pierpont Morgan, American financier, 1837-1913

Posted on June 1, 2021June 1, 2021

“Where there’s life, there’s hope.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC

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

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