It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
| Bob Barker, Actor (1923) |
| Will Carling, Athlete (1965) |
| Erasmus Darwin, Scientist (1731) |
| Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist (1919) |
| Emerson Fittipaldi, Celebrity (1946) |
| Gustave Flaubert, Novelist (1821) |
| William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist (1805) |
| Bridget Hall, Model (1977) |
| John Jay, Judge (1745) |
| Michael Jeffery, Politician (1937) |
| Tallulah Bankhead, Actress (1968) |
| Anne Baxter, Actress (1985) |
| Henry St. John, Politician (1751) |
| James Kent, Judge (1847) |


