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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Quote of the Day (John Keats, on Failure)
“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner
fail than not be among the greatest.”—Poet John Keats, letter to publisher James Hessey, October 9, 1818, in The Letters ofJohn Keats: Complete Revised Edition with a
Portrait Not Published in Previous Editions and Twenty-Four Contemporary Views
of Places Visited by Keats, edited by H. Buxton Forman (1895)
I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand
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