"Nemo invito auditori libenter refert. Sagitta in lapidem nunquam figitur, interdum resiliens percutit dirigentem."
— Jerome

January 1, 1970

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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it. — Letter 52