Paul Wilson

author, historian, podcaster, playwright and travel writer, aka Mr Silk Roads, Captain Mainwaring, Uncle Cheeky

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#qftd 2222
‘I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day’ EB White

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QFTD # 218 Georges Pachymeres Historia 13th C Byzantine historian ‘Sailing is a noble thing, useful beyond all others to mankind…, It makes the impossible possible…, it brings fresh knowledge to those who sail, it refines manners, it brings concord and civilisation to all men.’

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QFTD 217 navigare necesse est, vivere non necesse
‘To sail is necessary; to live is not.’ Pompey the Great

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Tun tonnes. Comes from old French -particular sized heavy wine barrel. Capacity 252 gallons 5 bottles per gallon.

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QFTD 216#
‘Seamanship, just like anything else, is an art. It is not something that can be picked up and studied in one’s spare time; indeed, it allows one no spare time for anything else.’

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#QFTD 215
‘History is a nightmare from which I am trying to escape.’
Joyce - Ulysses/Stephen Dedalus

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#QOTD 214 ‘Painters do not simply reproduce, they select and highlight.’ De Botton

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#QoTD 211 ‘Are you from Athens?
Socrates: ‘I am from the world.’

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#QOTD 210 ‘love is the pursuit in others of qualities we lack in ourselves.’
De Botton - Art of Travel

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#QOTD 209 ‘Life is a hospital in which every patient is obsessed with changing beds.’ Baudelaire. Grass always greener!

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#QOTD ‘the world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.’ Ibn Sina Avicenna

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#Heroes and Howlers
Here are all the links for those who have missed them!

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Idiots, Follies and Misadventures | Book by Mikey Robins | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster AU, hi folks this is happening! https://t.co/hsYmF9UjXw

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There’s a book coming!

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#QFTD207 'Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.' @ChinuaAchebe111

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#QFTD206 'Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one was taught at school.' Einstein

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Building paper planes with a launcher.
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#S8Ep1 OK, folks, we're kicking off our NEW SEASON, Season 8, in style - with a historical hunt for the world's oldest CHEESE! Looks like this guy might give us some clues. @MikeyRobins @cheesemummy

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#QFTD206 “There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool” Diogenes.