11 May 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
- 2004 The Enemy by Lee Child
- 1910 A Gentleman of Leisure by P. G. Wodehouse
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