I didn't use TableExtract on this site, but it does come up frequently. Had I gone with the runner-up: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/gratitude.html, then we would be heading down that road. I'm curious how similar a task it is to get the content from this link as opposed to the one in the original post. Now that I see http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes_of_the_day.html, I wonder if it may not have been my best option.

As it stands, I'm using HTML::TreeBuilder, and I'm getting nothing:

C:\cygwin64\home\Fred\pages2\list>perl scraper1.pl
nix!

C:\cygwin64\home\Fred\pages2\list>type scraper1.pl
#! /usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use 5.010;
use HTML::TreeBuilder 5 -weak;

my $site = 'http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/cities.html';
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_url($site);
foreach my $e ($tree->look_down(_tag => 'div')) {
  foreach my $f ($e->look_down(_tag => 'p')) {
    say $f->as_text;
  }
}
say "nix!";
C:\cygwin64\home\Fred\pages2\list>

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in thread regex to get random quote by Aldebaran

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