After-Orts #55

- Colorado wildlife officials remove tire from elk’s neck after two years - 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/12/colorado-elk-tire-neck/


What stands in the way becomes the way.
     — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.20
 

 … Prime Minister [Louis St.] Laurent [of Canada] reports [Sir Winston] Churchill as advising him: “Never stand when there is an opportunity to sit down, and and never sit down when you can lie down.”
— quoted in Teach Yourself to Live, by Charles Garfield Lott Du Cann, chapter X

Do not lose sight of the fact that alcoholic drink is not the only dangerous drink when consumed too immoderately or frequently. Coffee, I repeat, killed the great Balzac. Over-strong, over-stewed, and too frequent cups of tea, ‘‘the cups that cheer but not inebriate,’’ can be really harmful to the digestion. And many so-called “soft drinks” have deleterious ingredients. Nor are unboiled milk and unsterilised water always safe.
     — Charles Garfield Lott Du Cann, Teach Yourself to Live, chapter X