//=== BEGIN === WBB-JavaScript/Quote-of-the-Day.js ============================= switch( (new Date()).getSeconds() % 17 ) // Number-of-Seconds % Number-of-Quotes { case 0: txtquote = "If the author cannot find it in his heart to welcome his reader, " + "he should at least refrain from rebuffing, snubbing and bamboozling the wretch. " + "He must not retreat into complexities of feeling so personal and incommunicable " + "that the reader feels like somebody in the presence of a man having a fit, " + "and who stands powerless to help or comprehend, yet forbidden by decency to go." ; author = "Robertson Davies"; break; case 1: txtquote = "Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting."; author = "William Randolph Hearst"; break; case 2: txtquote = "Playing bop is like Scrabble with all the vowels missing."; author = "Duke Ellington"; break; case 3: txtquote = "Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, " + "any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner." ; author = "John Lubbock"; break; case 4: txtquote = "Of all those arts in which the wise excel, " + "Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well." ; author = "Duke of Buckinghamshire Sheffield "; break; case 5: txtquote = "He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, " + "but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move." ; author = "Robert Hall"; break; case 6: txtquote = "Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."; author = "Plato"; break; case 7: txtquote = "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands " + "of times; but to make them truly ours, " + "we must think them over again honestly, " + "till they take root in our personal experience." ; author = "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"; break; case 8: txtquote = "Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."; author = "Publilius Syrus"; break; case 9: txtquote = "She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."; author = "W. Somerset Maugham"; break; case 10: txtquote = "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."; author = "Sir Francis Bacon"; break; case 11: txtquote = "Tetigisti acu - You have hit the nail on the head."; author = "Plautus "; break; case 12: txtquote = "For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, " + "the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application — why, " + "the novel is practically the retail business all over again." ; author = "Howard Nemerov"; break; case 13: txtquote = "The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense."; author = "Mark Twain"; break; case 14: txtquote = "The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, " + "that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, " + "disgraced by Goebbels and debased by advertising copy, " + "remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars." ; author = "Nadine Gordimer"; break; case 15: txtquote = "I want it good, they want it Wednesday."; author = "Robert Heinlein"; break; default: txtquote = "Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else."; author = "Gloria Steinem"; } document.write( txtquote + '

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