It cannot be too…
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that makes men. – William Matthews (Image by Patrick Neufelder from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: What have you that you have not received? But if you received it, why do you boast as if it were not received? [What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/apple-23_money-62_baby-20_phone-69_640-100x75.jpg)
