03-20-2022, 07:54 PM
I learned from my Dear Old Dad's mistakes, and didn't repeat them - I went forth and made fresh new mistakes all my own... just to add to the knowledge base, you understand... and now my son is following in those footsteps, learning from our past mistakes, and going forth to make fresh new ones all his own. Imagine my surprise - I though that between the two of us, pa and I, we had covered them all, yet Number One Son has managed to find a few unused ones laying around in dark corners!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’