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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 4, 2018August 4, 2018

“Beauty is the lover’s gift.”—William Congreve, English playwright, 1670-1729

Posted on August 1, 2018August 1, 2018

“It’s a pretty serious matter for a man’s religion to fail him.”—in ‘Waldo’; Robert A. Heinlein, Dean of science fiction writers, 1907-1988

Posted on July 25, 2018

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 427-347 BC

Posted on July 24, 2018July 24, 2018

“VERY SORRY CAN’T COME. LIE FOLLOWS BY POST.”—telegram, Lord Charles Beresford, British admiral, 1846-1919

Posted on July 20, 2018July 20, 2018

“Advice is seldom welcome, and those who want it the most always like it the least.”—Philip Stanhope, British wit, 1694-1773

Posted on June 27, 2018June 27, 2018

“A house is a machine for living in.”—Le Corbusier, French architect, 1887-1965

Posted on June 24, 2018February 26, 2023

“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist, 1911-1980

Posted on June 16, 2018June 16, 2018

“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.”—Dr. Samuel Johnson, English essayist, 1709-1784

Posted on June 5, 2018June 5, 2018

“The river is no wider from this side or the other.”—Irish proverb

Posted on May 28, 2018

“‘Tis not the habit that makes the monk.”—Thomas Fuller, English churchman, 1608-1661

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