Note
The quote of the day is a riff on a hackneyed (mis)attribution to Mark Twain:
"Si tacuisses, philosophus manisses."
As an aside, I have a feeling, which is probably misguided, that the average British public school student appears much more educated than a really good American "public" school stiff owing to the former's at least passing familiarity with the classics.
Philosophy is quite a consolation, though, Boethius dude.