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John Steinbeck’s original manuscript for "Of Mice and Men" was eaten by his dog (a setter named Toby)

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Edward Henry Сorbould, Scene from Goethe's Faust, 1852.

Reading and Writing Room on the A-Deck aboard Titanic. It was probably destroyed in the final stages of the sinking

The Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs & Anecdotes of Remarkable & Eccentric Persons in All Ages & Countries,1788

Oscar Wilde disliked idle conversation: “Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

"Englishmen in November, Frenchmen in November". Thomas Rowlandson, 1788.
Metropolitan Museum of Art

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.” ― Harold Howe.
📷Andy Bagley.

Ludovico Carracci, Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker, died on this day in 1619.

French writer Colett died beloved by the public in 1954, and was the 1st woman to be given a state funeral in France

Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) Swedish novelist who in 1909 became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature