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Posted on September 17, 2016December 26, 2020

“Silence gives consent.”-Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774

Posted on September 17, 2016February 27, 2026

“The more law, the less justice.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC

Posted on September 16, 2016February 27, 2026

“It is very important whether a man is wise or only looks it.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim-writer, 85-43 BC

Posted on September 15, 2016February 27, 2026

“Nature does not proceed by leaps.”—Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, 1707-1778

Posted on September 12, 2016February 27, 2026

“If you want to be loved, be lovable!”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC-18 AD

Posted on September 11, 2016February 27, 2026

“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BC

Posted on September 10, 2016February 27, 2026

“The march of the human mind is slow.”—Edmund Burke, Irish statesman, 1729-1797

Posted on September 10, 2016February 28, 2026

“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626

Posted on September 8, 2016October 4, 2020

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”—Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President, 1858-1919

Posted on September 6, 2016February 28, 2026

“There is properly no history; only biography.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

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