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Thursday, November 12, 2026

Post #3362

No one knows but that death is the greatest of all blessings to man.
—Apology of Socrates

Sunday, November 08, 2026

Post #3361

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.
—Alexander Pope

Sunday, November 01, 2026

Post #3360

Man has many means of acquiring wisdom; but none more effectual, than that of observing the miscarriages of others.
—John Balguy

John Balguy

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Quick Review of the Navy Federal Credit Union

There are lawyers, bankers and thieves. Then there's the Navy Federal Credit Union making them all look like saints.

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Post #3359

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work, for man to mend.
—John Dryden, from his 1700 poem "To My Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton."

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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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