Quotes and Facts and Info

I found out who Cicero was - this is the entry in Encyclopedia Britannica

English byname Tully
born 106 bc, Arpinum, Latium [now Arpino, Italy] died Dec. 7, 43 bc, Formiae, Latium [now Formia]
Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who vainly tried to uphold republican principles in the final civil wars that destroyed the republic of Rome. His writings include books of rhetoric, orations, philosophical and political treatises, and letters. He is remembered in modern times as the greatest Roman orator and innovator of what became known as Ciceronian rhetoric.

So I have learnt a little something today - could come in useful when watching QI?

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Monday 4th January in 1643 Sir Isaac Newton - mathematician and physicist - was born.

More help knowledge for TV quiz shows or maybe for writing research and our lovely saying to make you feel better today is:

Shared joy is a double joy: shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

I think sometimes this is true - certainly the joy bit but sometimes pain and sorrow just goes so deep that telling everyone does not help - well it just makes them sick of hearing about it.

Oh dear.

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