Welcome to my commonplace blog

The goal of this blog is to preserve a few ideas and quotes from books I read. In the old days when books were not so readily available, people kept "commonplace books" where they copied choice passages they wanted to be able to remember and perhaps reuse. The idea got picked up by V.F.D. and it's common knowledge that most of that organization's volunteers have kept commonplace books, and so have Laura and I.

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26 March 2012

Letters from the Earth (Mark Twain)

Sarcastic Mark Twain book aimed at the Bible and Christianity. Sometimes it hits the mark, sometimes it simply reveals the prejudices of his time.


Quotes:

Man is an experiment, the other animals are another experiment. Time will show whether they were worth the trouble.

there has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else’s.

The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people’s Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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