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Posted on February 17, 2023

“Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.”—Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, 1881-1973

Posted on February 12, 2023

“For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.”—John Donne, English poet, 1572-1631

Posted on February 9, 2023

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics does not mean politics won’t take an interest in you.”—Pericles, Greek politician, 495-429 BC

Posted on January 29, 2023

“The years teach much which the days never know.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on January 28, 2023

“I’ve been things and seen places.”—Mae West, American actress, 1893-1980

Posted on January 19, 2023January 18, 2023

“Love, in the form in which it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the superficial contact of two bodies.”—Nicolas Chamfort, French epigramist, 1741-1794

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023

“Good begets good.”—Irish proverb

Posted on January 9, 2023

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”—Marcel Proust, French novelist, 1871-1922

Posted on January 4, 2023January 4, 2023

“The cure of a romantic first flame is a better surety to subsequent discretion, than all the exhortations of all the fathers, and mothers, and guardians, and maiden aunts in the universe.”—Fanny Burney, English satirical novelist, 1752-1840

Posted on December 21, 2022December 20, 2022

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”—Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, 1881-1973

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