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“It is never too late to be wise.”
📖 Robinson Crusoe.
Daniel Defoe, trader, writer and spy, died #OnThisDay in 1731.

"Detail of a juggler."
🎨British Library Harley 4951, fol. 298v, late 11th century.

#OnThisDay in 1570, Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, was born

"The patient cuckolded woman" (woman who married a much younger husband), anon., 17th century. Harry Ransom Center.

Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965), was an illustrator notable for his strongly worked and often surreal designs.

"Satan, Sin and Death."
🎨The dramatic scene is the work of the 18th century painter and engraver William Hogarth.

"Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.”
― Alexander Pushkin.
🎨 Pushkin on a Park Bench. 1899

"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."
📖Michel de Montaigne
🎨Grammatica, 14th c

🎨Paintings by William Blake depicting 'The Great Red Dragon' in various scenes from the The Apocalypse of John.

Maurice Sendak’s Little-Known and Lovely Posters Celebrating Books and the Joy of Reading.