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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 December 19, 2020December 19, 2020

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on December 17, 2020

“If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.”—Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist, 1920-2012

Posted on December 16, 2020

“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”—Logan Pearsall Smith, Anglo-American essayist, 1865-1946

Posted on December 15, 2020

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”—Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, 1694-1778

Posted on December 11, 2020

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”—Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939

Posted on December 10, 2020December 10, 2020

“He who is to be a good ruler must first have been ruled.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on December 5, 2020

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”—James Thurber, American humorist, 1894-1961

Posted on December 4, 2020

“A fool flatters himself; the wise man flatters the fool.”—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English writer & politician, 1803-1873

Posted on December 3, 2020

“If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.”—Harry S. Truman, U.S. President, 1884-1972

Posted on December 2, 2020

“Make something useful, help people use it, and then get out of the way.”—Craig Newmark, creator of Craig’s List, 1952-

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