Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Crying all the way, that is
On this day in 1890, John Henry Cardinal Newman died. He wrote:
"...the mass of men are created for nothing, and are meant to leave life as they entered it."
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
He got it his whole career
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Well, that hurts our feelings
Polish-born novelist Joseph Conrad, a master of English prose, died on this day in 1924.
"About feelings people really know nothing," Conrad wrote. "We talk with indignation or enthusiasm, we talk about oppression, cruelty, crime, devotion, self-sacrifice, virtue, and we know nothing real beyond the words."
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