>>I always explained my being a dilletante by saying I couldn't imagine committing myself for life to one interest, profession or discipline
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>Including spelling, I take it? ;)
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>< really, really huge snip >
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I know. Sometimes when I actually do run a spell checker I am even amazed at how persistantly I misspell certain words. I know my creative spelling of dilettante above is not a good example, but I do find I tend to spell better in languages other than English <s>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
