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Posted on December 3, 2019

“His greatest fault was his desire not to please the best people, but to please the most people.”—Seneca the Younger, Roman satirist, c. 4 BC – 65 AD

Posted on December 1, 2019December 1, 2019

“Everything yields to diligence.”—Antiphanes, Greek writer, 388-311 BC

Posted on November 28, 2019November 28, 2019

“Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on November 22, 2019November 22, 2019

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”—Anatole France, French man-of-letters, 1844-1924

Posted on November 20, 2019November 20, 2019

“Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.”—Terry Wogan, BBC broadcaster, 1938-2016

Posted on March 2, 2018

“Despite the fox’s cunning, his skin is often sold.”—Irish proverb

Posted on February 28, 2018

“A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.”—Aristophanes, Greek playwright, 446-386 BC

Posted on February 26, 2018February 26, 2018

“Idiot of idiots, to trust what is written!”—Titus Plautus, Roman playwright, 254-184 BC

Posted on February 24, 2018March 15, 2018

“America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.”—John Updike, American novelist, 1932-2009

Posted on February 19, 2018February 19, 2018

“God cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.”—Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Roman Catholic saint, 1910-1997

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