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Posted on September 6, 2021

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021

“The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”—Lewis Mumford, American historian, 1895-1990

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021

“Mankind censures injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BC

Posted on August 27, 2021August 27, 2021

“Many commit the same crime and face a different fate: that man gets the cross, this one the crown.”—Decimus Juvenal, Roman poet, 1st-2nd centuries, AD

Posted on August 25, 2021

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC

Posted on August 17, 2021

“A diplomat…is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.”—Caskie Stinnett, American humorist, 1911-1998

Posted on August 15, 2021August 15, 2021

“Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”—Bernard Baruch, American financier, 1870-1965

Posted on August 12, 2021August 12, 2021

“Nothing is so well fortified that money cannot capture it.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC

Posted on August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

“You cannot conceive the many without the one.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348

Posted on August 5, 2021August 5, 2021

“So many men, so many opinions, every one his own way.”—Terence, Roman playwright, 2nd century BC

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