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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 January 15, 2021

“Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”—Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, 1694-1778

Posted on January 13, 2021

“Ninety percent of everything is crap.”—Theodore Sturgeon, American science-fiction author, 1918-1985

Posted on January 12, 2021January 12, 2021

“How many things I can do without!”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on January 11, 2021

“In many ways the saying ‘Know thyself’ is lacking. Better to know other people.”—Menander, Greek dramatist, 342-291 BC

Posted on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021

“It Can’t Happen Here.”—Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, 1885-1951

Posted on January 7, 2021

“The great masses of the people…will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”—Adolf Hitler, German politician & Nazi Party leader, 1889-1945

Posted on January 6, 2021

“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.”—Christopher Dawson, British historian, 1889-1970

Posted on January 5, 2021

“One more drink and I’ll be under the host.”—Dorothy Parker, American writer, 1893-1967

Posted on January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

“The generality of mankind are contented to be estimated by what they possess instead of what they are.”—William Hazlitt, English drama critic, 1778-1830

Posted on January 2, 2021January 2, 2021

“Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.”—Charles Simmons, British politician, 1893-1975

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