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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 September 3, 2018September 3, 2018

“Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.”—John Lahr, American theater critic, 1941-

Posted on August 29, 2018August 29, 2018

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on August 16, 2018

“Anger is the only thing made better by delay.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on August 13, 2018

“We boil at different degrees.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, 1803-1882

Posted on August 11, 2018August 11, 2018

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”—H.L. Mencken, American satirist, 1880-1956

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

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