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: 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: I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. [I have forgotten the books I have read and the dinners I have eaten, but they both helped make me.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/food-6123416_640-100x66.jpg)


