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Commonplaces
Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
There are three idealists: God, mothers and poets!
They don't seek the ideal in completed things—
They find it in the incomplete.
There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.
—Peter Altenberg
(1859-1919)
— Family — Commonplaces #128 — May/June 2022 —
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