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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 July 23, 2020July 23, 2020

“The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.”—Witold Rybczynski, American architect, 1943-

Posted on July 22, 2020

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”—Aldous Huxley, English philosopher, 1894-1963

Posted on July 18, 2020July 18, 2020

“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catchwords.”—Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, 1850-1894

Posted on July 12, 2020July 12, 2020

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, 1856-1950

Posted on July 10, 2020July 10, 2020

“Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”—Jules Henri Poincaré, French polymath, 1854-1912

Posted on July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

“The real problem is not whether machines can think, but whether men do.”—B.F. Skinner, American psychologist, 1904-1990

Posted on July 3, 2020July 3, 2020

“It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the man whose people have been here many generations.”—Henry Cabot Lodge, American senator, 1850-1924

Posted on June 24, 2020June 24, 2020

“A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.”—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880

Posted on June 23, 2020

“I am a rich man, as long as I don’t pay my creditors.”—Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman playwright, 254-184 BC

Posted on June 22, 2020

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BC

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