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Posted on July 14, 2021July 14, 2021

“If you don’t bring Paris with you, you won’t find it there.”—John M. Shanahan, American entrepreneur, 1928-2005

Posted on June 20, 2021June 20, 2021

“A man always has two reasons for what he does—a good one, and the real one.”—John Pierpont Morgan, American financier, 1837-1913

Posted on June 8, 2021

“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on June 6, 2021June 6, 2021

“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.”—Henry Brooks Adams, American historian, 1838-1918

Posted on June 4, 2021

“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935

Posted on May 25, 2021May 25, 2021

“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”—Jane Ellice Hopkins, British social activist, 1836-1904

Posted on May 21, 2021May 21, 2021

“One keeps on forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.”—Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette), French author, 1873-1954

Posted on May 20, 2021

“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.”—George R. R. Martin, American novelist, 1948-

Posted on April 19, 2021April 19, 2021

“Silence is a receptive space.”—Barbara De Angelis, American author, 1951-

Posted on April 16, 2021April 16, 2021

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning; not possession, but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”—Johann Gauss, German mathematician, 1777-1855

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