• Bret Harte was born on 8/25/1836. “A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.”
• Truman Capote died on 8/25/1984. “A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”
• Zona Gale was born on 8/26/1874. “The world consists almost exclusively of people who are one sort and behave like another sort.”
• Christopher Isherwood was born on 8/26/1904. “One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.”
• Theodore Dreiser was born on 8/27/1871. “In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.”
• Ivy Compton-Burnett died on 8/27/1969. “People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.”
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on 8/28/1749. “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
• Robertson Davies was born on 8/28/1913. “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

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