FridayMay 15, 2026
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I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: 'As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends.' My reaction was, 'I wonder who said that; I wish I had.' In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), 'It was Littlewood who said...'
John Edensor Littlewood
We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer.... Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
Robert Burton
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.
Fra Giovanni Giocondo
Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.
Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone,
A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.
Thomas Nelson Page
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