When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
—H. L. Mencken
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Le sens commun n’est pas si commun. Common sense is not so common.
—Voltaire
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
—Leo Tolstoy
50’s Tunes and Copybook Headings
One the recurring post titles here at Hogewash! is Don’t Know Much About History. Another is Don’t Know Much Biology. They are, of course, lines from the song Wonderful World.
Don’t know much about history
Don’t know much biology
Don’t know much about a science book
Don’t know much about the French I took
Here’s Sam Cooke’s version recorded in 1959.
But I do know, one and one is two
And if this one could be with you
What a wonderful world this would be
So, what happens when one and one aren’t two? Modern life, with its many non-traditional families, tells us, and my podcasting partner Stacy McCain has a post up about the fallout from one attempt at ignoring the wisdom of the ’50s and the Copybook Headings.
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And there are those who have dropped their standards along the way, as if ethics were too heavy and slowed their rise to the top.
—George H. W. Bush
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You can get all A’s and still flunk life.
—Walker Percy
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Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
—Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
