by E.O. | Mar 31, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
“Now he could see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears that not only Hitler, not only Heydrich nor the ‘sphinx’ Müller, not just the S.S. or the Party, but the elite of the good old Civil Service were vying and fighting with each other for the honor of taking...
by E.O. | Mar 30, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
“Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.” – Abraham Cowley
by E.O. | Mar 29, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
“Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round and, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn throws up a steamy column, and the cups that cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, so let us welcome peaceful evening in.”...
by E.O. | Mar 28, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
Stew in your own juice, if that’s what makes you happy. – E.O.
by E.O. | Mar 26, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
“Mr. Musk’s chaos would be the worst possible solution to this spending chaos if not for the fact that more-orderly reforms are all but out of reach, thanks the iron law of concentrated benefits and diffused costs. There ought to be a better way, you keep thinking....
by E.O. | Mar 25, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
“The Mandarin style…is beloved by literary pundits, by those who would make the written word as unlike as possible to the spoken one. It is the style of those writers whose tendency is to make their language convey more than they mean or more than they feel, it is the...
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