15 January The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.
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Published on this day
- 1987 Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
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- Frances Anne Kemble: Thomas Sully, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- William De Morgan: Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina Pickering Stirling, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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