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In this month…

We shine a spotlight on authors who have an anniversary.

Charlotte Bronte - Author

Charlotte Brontë

BORN TOMORROW IN 1816
The human heart has hidden treasures
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Miguel De Cervantes - Author

Miguel de Cervantes

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1616
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Charles Darwin - Author

Charles Darwin

DIED YESTERDAY IN 1882
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Henry Fielding - Author

Henry Fielding

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1707
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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John Maynard Keynes - Author

John Maynard Keynes

DIED TOMORROW IN 1946
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1616
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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Bram Stoker - Author

Bram Stoker

DIED TODAY IN 1912
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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Robert Tressell - Author

Robert Tressell

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1870
Every man who is not helping to bring about a better state of affairs for the future is helping to perpetuate the present misery.
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Mark Twain - Author

Mark Twain

DIED TOMORROW IN 1910
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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