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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 November 5, 2020

“An honest politician is one who, when he’s bought, stays bought.”—Simon Cameron, American businessman & politician, 1799-1889

Posted on November 4, 2020November 4, 2020

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”—Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister & activist, 1929-1968

Posted on November 3, 2020

“Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory….In this war, we know, books are weapons.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president, 1882-1945

Posted on November 2, 2020November 2, 2020

“Those who can lick can bite.”—French proverb

Posted on October 30, 2020

“Of one power even God is deprived, and that is the power of making what is past never to have been.”—Agathon, Athenian poet, 448-400 BC

Posted on October 29, 2020

“When written in Chinese, the word CRISIS is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”—John F. Kennedy, U.S. President, 1917-1963

Posted on October 28, 2020

“Some books are to be read, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed ad digested.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626

Posted on October 27, 2020October 27, 2020

“Is it a fact, or have I dreamt it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?”—Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist, 1804-1864

Posted on October 25, 2020

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—George Santayana, American philosopher, 1863-1952

Posted on October 24, 2020

“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.”—Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father, 1743-1826

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