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Socrates & Stamp Collecting?

 
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Posted 03/06/2010   09:53 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add modern_who to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Socrates (470-399 BC) reputedly said something along the lines of:

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will be happy, if you get a bad one you can become a philosopher.

I don't know if the old guy was being facetious or simply stating the impetus behind his own vocation, but it stamps were around in his time, I suppose he could have said;

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will be happy, if you get a bad one you can become a stamp collector.
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Edited by modern_who - 03/06/2010 09:56 am

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Posted 03/06/2010   12:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add sfgoda to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi Larry, interesting quotes. I was a stamp collector before I got married and I'm still a stamp collector after the marriage ended 20 years later.
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Posted 03/06/2010   12:58 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nr-notrare to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi Mod......


First wife hated that I spent money on stamps......marriage didn't last long.....second wife is a collector....31 years and counting.....need I say more ?


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