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Posted on April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

“Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.”—William Allen White, American newspaper editor, 1868-1944

Posted on March 27, 2021

“It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”—Thomas Huxley, Biologist, 1825-1895

Posted on March 25, 2021March 25, 2021

“It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.”—John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist, 1908-2006

Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”—Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, 1817-1862

Posted on March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

“There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.”—Richard Steele, Irish writer, 1672-1729

Posted on March 2, 2021March 2, 2021

“Language is the archives of history.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on March 1, 2021March 1, 2021

“The ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ are the priests of Twentieth-Century America.”—Nathanael West, American author, 1903-1940

Posted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021

“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”—Will Durant, American historian, 1885-1981

Posted on February 25, 2021February 24, 2021

“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”—William Whiting, English poet, 1825-1878

Posted on February 21, 2021

“War is delightful to those who have had no experience with it.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

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