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Deven Phillips @[email protected] · 2026-06-12 · 10:30 UTC

Found another musician new to me. #Seeming seems more like #poetry / #prose set to #music. Definitely distinct and quite enjoyable! #FediMusic #ElectronicMusic https://www.last.fm/music/Seeming

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-08-30 · 18:47 UTC

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

Desire to appear clever often prevents our becoming so.

[Le désir de paraître habile empêche souvent de le devenir.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶199 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-06-19 · 15:39 UTC

A quotation from Josh Billings

“Happy as a king,” iz a libel on happiness, and on the king to.

[“Happy as a king,” is a libel on happiness, and on the king, too.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/77058/

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