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THE DAILY EXTRACT

(Wisdom of the Elders) Blog of quotations, epigrams,& excerpts. COMMENT/DISCUSS: twitter.com/PSeniorum.

Category: Education

Posted on January 9, 2023

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”—Marcel Proust, French novelist, 1871-1922

Posted on January 4, 2023January 4, 2023

“The cure of a romantic first flame is a better surety to subsequent discretion, than all the exhortations of all the fathers, and mothers, and guardians, and maiden aunts in the universe.”—Fanny Burney, English satirical novelist, 1752-1840

Posted on October 18, 2022October 17, 2022

“Book lovers never go to bed alone.”—Anonymous

Posted on September 23, 2022September 24, 2022

“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”—Dorothy Parker, American poet, 1893-1967 (editor’s note: this is a substitute for the “You can….” quotation. Our apologies.)

Posted on August 25, 2022

“Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”—James Baldwin, American writer, 1924-1987

Posted on January 5, 2022

“I may be sick and I may seem dumb. That don’t mean you know where I’m coming from.”—Lyric from “Qualified”, by Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr.), American songwriter, 1941-2019

Posted on September 5, 2021September 5, 2021

“A good mind possesses a kingdom.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC–65 AD

Posted on July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”—Arthur Helps, English writer, 1813-1875

Posted on July 20, 2021July 20, 2021

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BC

Posted on July 2, 2021

“Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626

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