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Daily Archives Monday, April 2006

Repost from my old blog (again)

Most people have heard of the traditional Chinese curse:
May you be born in interesting times.
It occurs to me that there’s another malediction that would condemn the cursee to an even more miserable fate:
May you be born to interesting parents.

Posted 03 April 2006 † Alan Cook § ‡ Comments (0) °

Some thoughts from Francis Bacon

Reading maketh a full man, conference a readye man, and writing an exacte man. And therefore if a man write little, he has neede haue a great memorie, if he conferre little, he had need haue a present wit, and if he reade little, he had neede haue much cunning, to seeme to know [...]

Posted 03 April 2006 † Alan Cook § ‡ Comments (0) °