The house is clean, supper's in the crockpot, The Dogs and The Girls seem happy enough so I'm skimming randomly through the quotes book.
From the "Adversity" section:
Ad astra per asperta. (To the stars through hardship.) Motto of the State of KansasThat might work in Kansas but after a stroll around the World Wide Web, I think a lot of folks in Staten Island wouldn't agree.
From "America and Americans":
The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe. W. L. GeorgeFrom that infallible source, Wikipedia, we learn that George (1882-1926) was an English writer born and raised in Paris-- who didn't bother to learn French until he was 20! According to Orwell, George was, "a 'natural' novelist, not inhibited by 'good taste'."
There will be a map presented to the general public on or about November 7, 2012 which will confirm George's assertion.
From "Books and Reading":
The true university of these days is a collection of books. Thomas CarlyleCarlyle, 1795-1881; "Dickens used Carlyle's work as a primary source for the events of the French Revolution in his novel A Tale of Two Cities." (Wikipedia on Carlyle)
Did I mention that I've enrolled in a Hillsdale College on-line course on the Constitution? For free! You can have the best of both worlds! If my power goes out and I can't access the World Wide Web, well... I still have multiple copies of the Constitution of the United States of America-- and the Declaration of Independence-- in several
I'll end with this one from Thomas Paine in the "Liberty and Human Rights" section. I swear, I really did just semi-randomly open the quotes book up. ("Semi-" because I started at the beginning of the book.)
And I'll not introduce Thomas Paine (1737-1809) other than to say he spent the first 37 years of his life in England and was an apprentice to his father, a corset maker. Ad astra per asperta! ... .
Sadly, for Paine, his star crashed and burned.
[Those with access to the Farm's
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.[All quotes from The Harper Book of Quotations, Third Edition, edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, published in 1993 by HarperPerennial]
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