• Christopher Morley was born on 5/5/1890. “Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
• Henry David Thoreau died on 5/6/1862. “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”
• L. Frank Baum died on 5/6/1919. “I can’t give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.”
• Robert Browning was born on 5/7/1812. “A minute’s success pays the failure of years.”
• Gustave Flaubert died on 5/8/1880. “A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.”
• Edmund Wilson was born on 5/8/1895. “I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.”

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