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2019-0907
1600s | ass | Author | English | funny | Historian | humor | truth

If an ass goes traveling, he’ll not come back a horse.

Thomas Fuller

Frequently referenced in travel‐related quotation collections, though I would argue has little to do with actually traveling. Perhaps more of a precursor to ​“WYSIWYG” or ​“You get what you pay for.” In any case, it’s quite effective at conjuring a strong image…and keeping the more fun alternative to the word donkey in play.

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2023-1230

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only from one row of the keyboard.

Unknown
Found: Random-facts-from-the-internet.txt on a deeply‐buried folder on my HD. Decided to ask the internet again and this apparently is false. According to Mr. Stitt, rupturewort, proprietory, and proterotype are all longer than typewriter—only by a single letter, but…longer. Guess …
2023-1216

That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

Benjamin Franklin
1700s · American · Boston · innovation · Inventor · patents · Philadelphia · polymath · Printer · Scientist · Statesman · Writer
Found: listening to Jill Lepore’s brilliant collection of essays, The Deadline: Essays. Specifically, she quoted Benjamin Franklin in Chapter 12, Valley of the Dolls, which is about the Barbie vs Bratz legal battle and …
2023-1205

Best advice I’ve ever received as a writer? Write.

Norman Lear
1900s · 2000s · American · funny · humor · Writer
From an interview with the late, great Larry King. Back in 1975, six of his shows were being broadcast every week to a prime‐time audience:  “All in the Family”  “Maude” “Good Times” “The Jeffersons” “Sanford and Son” …
2023-1204

ChatGPT wrote this quotation for me. Just joking. Maybe not. Guess you’ll never know…

Unknown
2000s · generative ai · trust
…I suppose that’s the problem.
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