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"Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything." Florence King

"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity." "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." Samuel Johnson

"It is beyond the ability of nations today to prevent conditions within them from becoming equal, but it is within their power to decide whether equality will lead them into servitude or liberty, enlightenment or barbarism, prosperity or misery." Alexis de Tocqueville

"At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards." Nietzsche

"I will seize Fate by the throat. It will not wholly conquer me! Oh, how beautiful it is to live - and live a thousand times over!" Beethoven

Woody Strode, Jackie Robinson, and Kenny Washington played on the UCLA football team. They went on to make history, breaking the color lines in professional baseball and football. Strode also became an actor.

Brian Lamb: "If you didn't become what you are, what would you be, what other profession?" James Grant: "...I would be a professional scholar of Samuel Johnson. I am a Johnsonian. And I believe the best book in the language is Boswell's Life of Johnson."

Gary Raymond, Mary Ure, and Richard Burton - on set of first Woodfall film, Look Back In Anger.

"The earth burns with the quenchless thirst of ages, and in the steel-blue sky scarcely a cloud obstructs the unrelenting triumph of the sun." Winston Churchill on the Soudan in his book The River War.

“I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon." Florence King

"If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope." Florence King

"Detonators had been clamped to its shell . . . .A web of cables enveloped it . . . .Crawling with switches and snakelike wires, it looked for all the world like an ugly Medusa bent on destruction." Lansing Lamont - Day of Trinity

Watching 'Tom Jones' on TCM. Ribaldry in abundance: ". . . Jones probably thought one woman better than none, and Molly as probably imagined two men to be better than one."

Confederate and Union Veterans together in peace during the 1938 Gettysburg reunion. The Gettysburg Museum of History photo archives:

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Samuel Johnson - "The Turk's Head Oracle"

A man incapable of having an ignoble thought? Yes, there just might be one. Has anyone ever disliked Stan "The Man" Musial?

OTD 1969 - they made it.