The cherry among flowers, the samurai among men. – Kanadehon Chūshingura; trans. by Hidesaburo Saito [斎藤秀三郎] (1866 – 1929) (Image by shell_ghostcage from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Practice makes perfect. / Custom makes all things easy. (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Confidence is a plant of slow growth. More »
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) More »
The command of custom is great. More »
A child is a good mirror of his parents. More »
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James (Arthur) Baldwin (1924 – 87) More »
“A classic”: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910): Speech, quoting Professor Caleb Winchester, 20 Nov 1900, Nineteenth Century Club, NYC More »
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Down corn, down horn. [Corn and horn go together.] More »
A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. – Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 81) More »
A red sun hath water…
常に心せよ、流れに…
シーザーの妻は疑惑を…
さよなら…寂しいよ…
Don't just dream…
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