This week's proverb, which is unattributed, is: "No good deed goes unpunished."

Proverbial #43: No Easy Way Out

This week's proverb comes via William Hazlitt, a British essayist and philosopher who wrote that, "violent antipathies are always suspicious and betray a secret affinity." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. Proverbial is produced by Goldberry Studios for the CiRCE Podcast Network.

Proverbial #50: Who Are You Trying to Convince? 

In this episode, Andrew Kern offers some practical applications regarding the ways rhetoric teaches students to read well, then he answers some listener questions (including about children's literature.)

Ask Andrew: How Does Rhetoric Teach Us to Read (Part 2)

This week's proverb is unattributed (thought it is English). It goes, "children should be seen and not heard." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this poem has to say to modern men and women. Proverbial is produced by Goldberry Studios for the CiRCE Podcast Network.

Proverbial #49: 18 to 34

In this episode, Andrew Kern spends the bulk of the episodes contemplating the questions, "how does rhetoric teach us to read?" before diving into some more rapid-fire questons/answers.

Ask Andrew: How Does Rhetoric Teach Us to Read? 

This week's proverb comes to us from Thomas Aquinas who wrote, "I fear the man of one book." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. Proverbial is produced for the CiRCE Podcast Network by Goldberry Studios.

Proverbial #48: Again and Again

This week's proverb comes from German philosopher and writer, Goethe: "We can't form our children on our own concepts. We must take them and love them as God gives them to us." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.&nbsp; Proverbial, part of the CiRCE Podcast Network, is produced by Goldberry Studios. Please be sure to subscribe to the show on its own feed!

Proverbial #47: Fathers & Sons

This week's proverb comes from Dante: "Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind leaving on earth no more memorial than foam in water or smoke upon the wind." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.

Proverbial 45: Bully for You 

This week's proverb is anonymous (but very well known):&nbsp;The apple does not fall far from the tree.&nbsp;Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women.

Proverbial #44: We May Be Through with the Past but the Past Is Not Through With Us

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