Tuesday, May 24, 2005
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
- Henry Brooks Adams (1838 – 1918), American historian and memoirist: “The Education of Henry Adams”, 1907.
“Recalling once after dinner that he had done nothing to help anyone all that day, he gave voice to that memorable and praiseworthy remark: ‘Friends, I have lost a day.”
- Titus Vespasianus (AD 39 – 81), Roman emperor and public benefactor: in Suetonius, “Lives of the Caesars”
“One man’s faith is another man’s delusion.”
- Anthony Storr (1920 – 2001), British writer and psychiatrist: “Feet of Clay”, 1996.
- Henry Brooks Adams (1838 – 1918), American historian and memoirist: “The Education of Henry Adams”, 1907.
“Recalling once after dinner that he had done nothing to help anyone all that day, he gave voice to that memorable and praiseworthy remark: ‘Friends, I have lost a day.”
- Titus Vespasianus (AD 39 – 81), Roman emperor and public benefactor: in Suetonius, “Lives of the Caesars”
“One man’s faith is another man’s delusion.”
- Anthony Storr (1920 – 2001), British writer and psychiatrist: “Feet of Clay”, 1996.
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