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Posted on August 13, 2020

“Discretion is not the better part of biography.”—Lytton Strachey, English writer, 1880-1932

Posted on August 12, 2020August 12, 2020

“Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”—Howard Scott, American engineer, 1890-1970

Posted on August 8, 2020

“War is a contagion.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president, 1882-1945

Posted on August 5, 2020August 5, 2020

“Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”—Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900

Posted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020

“Actors are cattle.”—Alfred Hitchcock, English film director, 1899-1980

Posted on July 29, 2020July 29, 2020

“No furniture so charming as books.”—Sydney Smith, English writer, 1771-1845

Posted on July 24, 2020July 24, 2020

“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.”—H.L. Mencken, American satirist, 1880-1956

Posted on July 23, 2020July 23, 2020

“The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.”—Witold Rybczynski, American architect, 1943-

Posted on July 18, 2020July 18, 2020

“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catchwords.”—Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, 1850-1894

Posted on June 21, 2020

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

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