Homo Sum:
humani nil a me alienum puto

I just don’t have anything interesting of my own to say today. I shall let others say interesting things and be on my way.

• “There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.” — Dorothy Parker
• “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” — Edgar Allen Poe
• “Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.” — William Blake
• “Where others crouched and crawled and prayed, I stand the self-doomed unafraid.” — Jimmy from that Pogues album
• “Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” — John Locke
• “Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” — Francis Bacon, quoting Aristotle
• “Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.” — Santayana
• “There are two things a real man likes: danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of playthings.” — Freddy The German
• “The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.” — Marshall McLuhan

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