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Sunday, September 13, 2026

Post #3353

I have been a stranger in a strange land.
—Exodus 2, 22

Sunday, September 06, 2026

Post #3352

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
—Mark Twain

Sunday, August 30, 2026

Post #3351

A man that hideth his foolishness is better than a man that hideth his wisdom.
—Ecclesiasticus 41, 15

Post #3350

They tell of Themistocles, that when a certain man of high culture and eminent learning came to him and offered to instruct him in the art of memory... Themistocles replied that he would do him a much greater favor if he would teach him the art of forgetting; for I remember what I would not, and cannot forget what I would.
—Saying of Themistocles, as recorded by Cicero.

Sunday, August 23, 2026

Post #3349

Sloth never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
—Miguel de Cervantes (translated from Don Quixote)

Translate it

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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