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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 8, 2020

“War is a contagion.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president, 1882-1945

Posted on August 7, 2020

“When he says he did you a favour, he’s asking for one.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century, BC

Posted on August 5, 2020August 5, 2020

“Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”—Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900

Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”—Malcolm Forbes, publisher, 1919-1990

Posted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020

“Actors are cattle.”—Alfred Hitchcock, English film director, 1899-1980

Posted on August 1, 2020August 2, 2020

“The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.”—Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American composer, 1882-1971

Posted on July 29, 2020July 29, 2020

“No furniture so charming as books.”—Sydney Smith, English writer, 1771-1845

Posted on July 28, 2020July 28, 2020

“Nature fits all her children with something to do; he who would write and can’t write, can surely review.”—James Russell Lowell, American poet, 1819-1891

Posted on July 26, 2020July 26, 2020

“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”—Anais Nin, American-Cuban essayist, 1903-1977

Posted on July 24, 2020July 24, 2020

“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.”—H.L. Mencken, American satirist, 1880-1956

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