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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 August 30, 2020

“I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?”—Jean Cocteau, French poet, 1889-1963

Posted on August 29, 2020

“The desire to write grows with writing.”—Desiderius Ersamus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on August 27, 2020

“To love and to work.”—Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939

Posted on August 22, 2020

“Irrationally held truth may be more harmful than reasoned errors.”—Thomas Huxley, Biologist, 1825-1895

Posted on August 21, 2020

“Never mistake motion for action.”—Ernest Hemingway, American journalist, 1899-1961

Posted on August 16, 2020August 16, 2020

“Veracity is the heart of morality.”—Thomas Huxley, Biologist, 1825-1895

Posted on August 15, 2020

“It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on August 13, 2020

“Discretion is not the better part of biography.”—Lytton Strachey, English writer, 1880-1932

Posted on August 12, 2020August 12, 2020

“Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”—Howard Scott, American engineer, 1890-1970

Posted on August 9, 2020

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, 1856-1950

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