Nothing to Fear…

While President Franklin Roosevelt made the line “nothing to fear but fear itself” famous in his 1933 inaugural address, echoes of the sentiment can be found in earlier writers and poets. Indeed, the sentiment is a fine one. It casts fear as an insubstantial thing, something no more able to harm us than a character

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The Best Laid Plans…

“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry” While the proverb that I have stolen borrowed for the title of this post is familiar to many of you, what you might not know is where the proverb comes from. The original line is from the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns,

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