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"Nothing is given so profusely as advice."
Maxim 110.
French author François de La Rochefoucauld was born #OTD in 1613.
He was a French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs which portrays the callous nature of human conduct, with a cynical attitude towards putative virtue and avowals of affection, friendship, love, and loyalty.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%…
Books by François de La Rochefoucauld at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/57…
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"We have Europe’s biggest zinc mine in Co. Meath, a gypsum mine in Co. Monaghan splitting Gaelic pitches in half, a gold mine riddled with health and safety woes at Cananacaw, Co. Tyrone... Aughinish Alumina on the banks of the Shannon, and we’re also host to the deluge of unregulated quarries that litter the island. Extraction is business as usual on the emerald aisle."
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It's 1658 and Europe is looking... interesting. Meanwhile our Dutch trade empire grows in the Caribbean and Japan.
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Illegal Israeli settlers and soldiers stormed several villages and towns in the occupied West Bank overnight Saturday, leading to confrontations with Palestinian residents.
Palestinian Television reported that one person was injured during a raid by settlers who were protected by the army in the village of Umm Safa in northern Ramallah.
The report did not specify the nature or source of the injury.
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#OTD in 1915.
P. G. Wodehouse's story "Extricating Young Gussie" is published in The Saturday Evening Post (U.S.). It introduces as characters Jeeves and Bertie.
It was published in the United Kingdom in the January 1916 edition of The Strand Magazine. It was included in the collection The Man with Two Left Feet (1917).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extricat…
Extricating Young Gussie at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/7471
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dans les premiers froids...une merveille !
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Laudateur, pareil. Genre ils ont été nombreux à poignarder Jules César.
Et "lui aussi, son fils" n'y a pas été de main morte.
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