June 2012
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Yes, it’s hard to write, but it’s harder not to.
– Carl Van Doren
May 2012
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The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly...
– Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 136
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Resist much, obey little.
– Walt Whitman The author of Leaves of Grass was born on this day in 1819.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
– Honoré de Balzac
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
– Margaret Atwood
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Jersey Rules
History trivia of the day:
The first brewery in the US to put beer in a can was Newark’s own Gottfried Kreuger Brewing in a collaboration with American Can Co. in 1935.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson The often-quoted author was born on this day in 1803.
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Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
– Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
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I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral, but when I trace at my...
– Claudius Ptolemy, AD 150
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all...
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful.
– James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for...
– Richard Russo
Empire Falls