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📅 This Day in Literature — September 9
Born on this day: Leo Tolstoy (1828)
War and Peace took six years to write. Anna Karenina another four.
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“Your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes that is the best help of all.”
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess ⭐ ❄️ 🎄
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“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
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“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. “
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
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