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Thought for the day
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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Remembered today
Published on this day
- 1992 Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
- 2003 The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
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- Clemency Burton-Hill: Paul Musso; Hay Festival WAles, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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