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"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius
(09/28/0551 – 04/11/0479 BC)
Chinese philosopher ("Analects")

"Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small-clothes and looks as if he smelt it."

Christopher Smart
(04/11/1722 – 05/21/1771)
English writer ("The Hilliad")

"Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh save me from the Candid Friend."

George Canning
(04/11/1770 – 08/08/1827)
British PM (19)

"If this boy passes the examinations he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education."

Edward Everett
(04/11/1794 – 01/15/1865)
US politician, educator ("An Account of Some Greek Manuscripts, Procured at Constantinople in 1819...") , on admitting the first black student to Harvard

"Cats don't caress us—they caress themselves on us."

Antoine de Rivarol
(06/26/1753 – 04/11/1801)
French writer ("Discours sur l'universalité de la langue française (The Universality of the French Language)")

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

Charles Evans Hughes
(04/11/1862 – 08/27/1948)
US Secretary of State, Supreme Court justice

"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve."

Dean Acheson
(04/11/1893 – 10/12/1971)
US secretary of state ("Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department")

"The Middle West is a state of mind of people born where they do not like to live."

Glenway Wescott
04/11/1901 – 02/22/1987)
US poet, novelist ("The Grandmothers")

"I'm a half-assed celebrity—everyone knows Brenda Starr but nobody knows me."

Dale Messick
(04/11/1906 – 04/05/2005)
US cartoonist ("Brenda Starr, Reporter")
(died near her birthday)

"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."

Richard Harding Davis
(04/18/1864 – 04/11/1916)
US writer ("The Princess Aline")
(son of Rebecca Harding Davis; died near his birthday)

"I don't feel good."

Luther Burbank
(03/07/1849 – 04/11/1926)
US botanist (Shasta Daisy) , last words

"If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there? There must be an epidemic of insomnia out there."

Ellen Goodman
(04/11/1941 – )
US journalist ("Paper Trail: common sense in uncommon times")

"I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere. Crippity crappity creepies."

Vincent Gallo
(04/11/1961 – )
US actor, director ("Buffalo '66")
(LTR with Chloë Sevigny)

"Now, ride off in all directions."

Michael Curtiz
(12/24/1886 – 04/11/1962)
US film director ("Casablanca") , directing Gary Cooper in a western

"I would change the push for women to look like Playmate Barbie dolls; that is just ridiculous."

Tricia Helfer
(04/11/1974 – )
Canadian model, actor ("Battlestar Galactica") , on one thing she would change about the film industry

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."

Jacques Prevert
(02/04/1900 – 04/11/1977)
French writer ("Autumn Leaves")

"All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed."

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(11/11/1922 – 04/11/2007)
US writer ("Slaughterhouse-Five")
(same dates as Jonathan Winters)

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."

Jonathan Winters
(11/11/1925 – 04/11/2013
US comic actor ("Mork & Mindy")
(same dates as Kurt Vonnegut)

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