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Edward Gibbon, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, born May 8, 1737.

"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."

Frank O'Hara, born March 27, 1926.

And
always embrace things, people earth
sky stars, as I do, freely and with
the appropriate sense of space.

Howard Pyle, author and illustrator, born March 5, 1853.

Wallace Stegner, born February 18, 1909.

"There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences."

Osip Mandelstam, born January 14, 1891.

"Only in Russia poetry is respected—it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?"

Wilkie Collins, born January 8, 1824.

"Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper."

Heinrich Heine, born December 13, 1797.

"The future smells of Russian leather, of blood, of godlessness and of much whipping. I advise our grandchildren to come into the world with very thick skin on their backs."

Willa Cather, born December 7, 1873.

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

Robert Louis Stevenson, born November 13, 1850.

"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."

Quite possibly this is the first Broadway musical tie-in edition in the history of the Modern Library, and we are extraordinarily jazzed about it.