13 June The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
It may be confidently asserted that no man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. And the desire of rectifying these mistakes, is the noble ambition of an enlightened understanding, the impulse of feelings that Philosophy invigorates.
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- Frances Burney: Edward Francis Burney, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- John Palgrave Simpson: Bean, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Dorothy L. Sayers: uncredited; published by Boni and Liveright in connexion with her 1925 release Whose Body, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized