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From: et Cetera
Date: 20070101
Author:Anonymous
Time has no divisions to mark its passage; there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
- Thomas Mann, novelist, Nobel laureate (1875-1955)
Upon the cunning loom of thought / We weave our fancies, so and so.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836-1907, American novelist
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.... Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
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