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Giovanni Boccaccio
BORN THIS WEEK IN 1313
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

G.K. Chesterton
DIED TOMORROW IN 1936
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable.

M.R. James
DIED YESTERDAY IN 1936
Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo

Jerome K. Jerome
DIED TOMORROW IN 1927
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Adam Smith
BORN THIS WEEK IN 1723
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.


Harriet Beecher Stowe
BORN TOMORROW IN 1811
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

W.B. Yeats
BORN TODAY IN 1865
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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