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In this month…

We shine a spotlight on authors who have an anniversary.

Lord Byron - Author

Lord Byron

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1824
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Daniel Defoe - Author

Daniel Defoe

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1731
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Author

Lucy Montgomery

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1942
Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.
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Anna Sewell - Author

Anna Sewell

DIED YESTERDAY IN 1878
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

BORN TODAY IN 1564
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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Anthony Trollope - Author

Anthony Trollope

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1815
Never think that you’re not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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William Wordsworth - Author

William Wordsworth

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1850
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
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