So Why Not Try?

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
—     Walter Bagehot
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On This Day In:
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2019	Spoiler Alert
2018	Tic-Toc
2017	Explaining Working Class Support For Donald
2016	Not In My Experience
2015	Effort
2014	Honest Wants
2013	Faith, n.
2012	Surprise Me
2011	Confused With Truth

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Might I Have A Little More, Please

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
—    Voltaire
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On This Day In:
2021	All I See Are Nails
	More Money
2020	We Will Get Through This
2019	I Asked My Family Doctor Just What I Had
2018	You Have Just Begun To Climb
2017	Equal Protection Under Law
2016	A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
2015	Or You Don’t
2014	If You Ever Fall…
2013	Glory Days (part 2)
2012	They Follow A Pattern – If You Know What I Mean
	What I Live For (Precis)
2011	Giving

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An Afternoon Nap

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
—    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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On This Day In:
2020	Magical Voices In My Head
	I Still Need Educating
2019	And I’m Not Letting Go
2018	The Continuing Failure Of Speaker Paul Ryan
	Day 3: Approaching The Half Way Point
2017	Orange Comb-Overs Unite!
2016	Speaking Of Which
2015	Complexity Has A Strict Architecture
2014	Just Support
2013	Wandering Free
2012	Contribute = Paying Taxes
2011	How Will You Be Judged?

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Two Guides

In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead;  the one being an innate desire of pleasure;  the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
―    Socrates
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On This Day In:
2018	A Call For You
2017	Because I Read
2016	On What Matters…
2015	Social Security
2014	Bewitching
2013	Visiting Joy
2012	Dedication To Today
2011	Project Second Chance – Adult Literacy
	Turning Coal Into Diamonds

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Pick Your Poison

There are seven sins in the world:
Wealth without work;
Pleasure without conscience;
Knowledge without humility;
Commerce without morality;
Science without humanity;
Worship without sacrifice;  and,
Politics without principle.
—    Mahatma Gandhi
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