The coat-of-arms of the human race ought to consist of a man with an axe on his shoulder proceeding toward a grindstone.
We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves.
Mark Twain, Reflections on a Letter and a Book, The Autobiography of Mark Twain.
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011
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