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Posted on March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

“The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.”—Diogenes the Cynic, Greek philosopher, 404-323 BC

Posted on March 8, 2021

“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021

“We cannot all do everything.”—Virgil, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on March 6, 2021March 7, 2021

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”—Paul Valery, French poet, 1871-1945

Posted on March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

“Human kind cannot bear very much reality.”—T.S. Eliot, British poet, 1888-1965

Posted on March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”—Woody Allen, American director, 1935-

Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

“No man ever wore a cravat as nice as his own child’s arm around his neck.”—Irish proverb

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 28, 2021February 28, 2021

“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.”—John Ruskin, English polymath, 1819-1900

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