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Commonplaces
Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
What a talker he was, what a persuader!
All appearances took on whatever coloring he imposed on them. The great persuaders are those without principles; sincerity stammers.
Men of faith and men of genius have this in common: they know (observe and remember) many things they are not conscious of knowing. They are attentive to relationships, recurrences, patterns and “laws.” . . . Minds that are impatient for clarity—or even reasonableness—become gradually narrower and dryer.
—Thornton Wilder
The Eighth Day (1967)
— culture — Commonplaces #145 — Sept/Oct 2022 —
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