14 January The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
[T]o be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people.
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- Pamela Wyndham: John Singer Sargent, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Hugh Lofting: Unknown (Before 1925) Depicts Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Paul Mendelson: Daisychien, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- George the Poet: Matt Deegan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Lewis Carroll: Lewis Carroll, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Herbert Greenhough Smith: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Sheila Kaye-Smith: E. O. Hoppe (picture credit), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Ralph Chubb: unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Gordon Bowker: Geneus01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Storm Constantine: Wdarling, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized