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Thought for the day
Around the child bend all the three Sweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity. Around the man bend other faces; Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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Published on this day
- 2010 War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
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- Sherrie Hewson: Sarah Winterman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Richard Owen Cambridge: Ozias Humphry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Walter Savage Landor: William Fisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Caroline Fry: Thomas Lawrence, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized