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Sunday, June 30, 2024

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Post #2839

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
—Jonathan Swift

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Friday, February 08, 2019

Friday, July 07, 2017

Post #2375

Men who want to do everything their own way must make a world to suit them, for it can not be done in this.

Friday, March 27, 2015

Post #1780

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.
—Alexander Pope

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Thursday, December 05, 2013

Post #1425

The self-educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
—Isaac D'Israeli

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Post #1322

It is a difficult thing to change the disposition, and if there is anything deeply engrained in our nature to suddenly pluck it out.
Cicero

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Friday, May 24, 2013

Post #1261

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.
—Horace Walpole

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Post #1040

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Saturday, June 05, 2010

Post #246

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
—James Russell Lowell

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Post #193

"My idea of an agreeable person" said Hugo Bohun "is a person who agrees with me".
—From Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Post #167

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Post #74

Who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
—Nautical saying

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

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