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Posted on November 1, 2016February 22, 2026

“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774

Posted on October 31, 2016February 22, 2026

“Extreme law is often extreme injustice.”—Terence, Roman playwright, 2nd century, BC

Posted on October 30, 2016February 22, 2026

“Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.”—Zeuxis, Greek painter, late-5th-early-4th-century BC

Posted on October 29, 2016February 22, 2026

“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.”—Ernest Dimnet, French priest, 1866-1954

Posted on October 29, 2016February 23, 2026

“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.”—Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman playwright, 254-184 BC

Posted on October 28, 2016February 23, 2026

“An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.”—Alva Johnston, American journalist, 1888-1950

Posted on October 26, 2016February 23, 2026

“Wine is a peephole on a man.”—Alcaeus of Mytilene, Greek lyric poet, 620-580 BC

Posted on October 25, 2016February 23, 2026

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”—W. Somerset Maugham, English writer, 1874-1965

Posted on October 23, 2016February 23, 2026

“The word friend is common, the fact is rare.”—(Phaedrus) Plato, Ancient Greek philosopher, c. 428-423—348/347 BC

Posted on October 22, 2016December 26, 2020

“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774

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