29 February The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents.
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- John Byrom: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Violet, Lady Greville: James Lafayette, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Edward Frederic Benson: E. F. Benson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Violet Keppel Trefusis: Jacques-Émile Blanche, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized