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Tom Costello
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“Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.”
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“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.”
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“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die.
For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.”
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For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.”
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“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.”
― Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
― Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”
― More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life.
― More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life.
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Tom’s 2025 Year in Books
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