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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 October 2, 2019November 12, 2019

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”—Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father, 1743-1826

Posted on September 28, 2019September 28, 2019

“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more.”—Walker Evans, American photographer, 1903-1975

Posted on August 18, 2019August 18, 2019

“Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.”—Epicurus, Greek philosopher, 341-270 BC

Posted on August 4, 2019

“Prosperity often comes to the easygoing.”—Irish proverb

Posted on July 18, 2019July 18, 2019

“Let’s face it, there are no plain women on television.”—Anna Ford, English journalist, b. 1943

Posted on July 17, 2019July 17, 2019

“Where there’s music, there can be no evil.”—Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author, 1547-1616

Posted on July 13, 2019July 13, 2019

“The people’s good is the highest law.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC

Posted on July 6, 2019July 6, 2019

“Luck is the residue of design.”—Branch Rickey, American baseball player & executive, 1881-1965

Posted on July 5, 2019

“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”—Hippocrates, Greek physician, 460-370 BC

Posted on July 3, 2019

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”—Adlai Stevenson, America politician & diplomat, 1900-1965

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