25 May The literary calendar
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... if the breast be uneducated, the gift may curse the giver; and he who passes at once from the slave to the freeman may pass as rapidly from the freeman to the ruffian.
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- Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Henry William Pickersgill, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Julian Clary: ExpressingYourself (talk) (Uploads), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Ernest Rhys: Russell, Baker Street (no individual credited), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Leonora Carrington: WendyAvilesR, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized