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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 March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”—Woody Allen, American director, 1935-

Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

“No man ever wore a cravat as nice as his own child’s arm around his neck.”—Irish proverb

Posted on March 2, 2021March 2, 2021

“Language is the archives of history.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on March 1, 2021March 1, 2021

“The ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ are the priests of Twentieth-Century America.”—Nathanael West, American author, 1903-1940

Posted on February 28, 2021February 28, 2021

“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.”—John Ruskin, English polymath, 1819-1900

Posted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021

“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”—Will Durant, American historian, 1885-1981

Posted on February 26, 2021February 26, 2021

“Don’t sell America short.”—J.P. Morgan, American financier, 1837-1913

Posted on February 25, 2021February 24, 2021

“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”—William Whiting, English poet, 1825-1878

Posted on February 25, 2021February 25, 2021

“The new broom sweeps the house best.”—Irish proverb

Posted on February 23, 2021February 23, 2021

“Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.”—Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, 1850-1894

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