Day Quote

August 28, 2009 at 2:58 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , )

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Day Quote. Tempus fugit

August 27, 2009 at 3:08 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , , , , , , , , , )

I seem to be overly preoccupied with this subject lately. This is one of my favorite pieces of writing.

If it looks goofy it’s because I scanned it into the computer and cropped it so you could read it clearly.

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August 24, 2009 at 10:56 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , )

You can’t build happiness off of someone else’s sorrow.

—Unknown

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Day Quote (For the BF) I’m not the only one!

August 18, 2009 at 1:05 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , , )

I never deny; I never contradict; I sometimes forget.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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August 16, 2009 at 12:21 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , , , )

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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August 15, 2009 at 8:13 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , )

To stay with the whole confusing, loopy, hazy, trippy aspect of the site we seem to have going these last few days:

History is philosophy from examples.

—Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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August 13, 2009 at 10:33 am (Day Quote) (, , , , , , )

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

—James Joyce

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August 10, 2009 at 8:50 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , )

All sorrows can be borne, if you put them into a story.

—Isak Dinesen

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August 8, 2009 at 10:40 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , )

“It’s always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.”

“But suppose there are two mobs?” suggested Mr. Snodgrass.

“Shout with the largest,” replied Mr. Pickwick.

—Charles Dickens

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August 6, 2009 at 9:01 am (Day Quote) (, , , , , , , , )

It’s over, and can’t be helped, and that’s one consolation, as they always says in Turkey, ven they cuts the wrong man’s head off.

—Charles Dickens

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