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We shine a spotlight on authors who have an anniversary.

Robert Burns Author

Robert Burns

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1759
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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Lord Byron - Author

Lord Byron

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1788
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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Lewis Carroll - Author

Lewis Carroll

BORN TODAY IN 1832
If you don’t know where you are going,any road will get you there.
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Anton Chekhov - Author

Anton Chekhov

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1860
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Joseph Jacobs - Author

Joseph Jacobs

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1916
There remained in Leinster a king, who was remarkably fond of hearing stories
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Edward Lear - Author

Edward Lear

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1888
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat…
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Edith Wharton - Author

Edith Wharton

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1862
There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
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Virginia Woolf - Author

Virginia Woolf

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1882
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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William Yeats - Author

W.B. Yeats

DIED TOMORROW IN 1939
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
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