Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.