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Thought for the day
Life was to be lived — not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love — to be enjoyed!
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Published on this day
- 1939 Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P. G. Wodehouse
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- Robert Williams Buchanan: Herbert Rose Barraud, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Brian Aldiss: Szymon Sokół, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Bea Fitzgerald: Mateusz Malta, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Gabrielle Enthoven: George Charles Beresford (1864-1938), Victorian studio photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- E. R. Eddison: George Beresford, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Michael Napier Brown: Michael Napier Brown, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Jill Murphy: ThePortraitLady, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized