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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."

Sunday, October 18, 2026

Post #3358

Good things have to be engraved on the memory ; bad ones stick there of themselves.
 —Charles Reade

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Post #3357

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
 —Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sunday, October 04, 2026

Post #3356

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
—Amos Bronson Alcott

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Post #3355

They practise nothing else but to die.
—Plato

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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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