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Trivia Today - Monday, February 17, 2014
Greetings Infomaniacs, Since I work in two different libraries, it's no surprise that I love books! Reading has always been one of my favorite hobbies.
When I'm helping people find books in the stacks, I just want to spend my whole day there browsing the different books in the collection.
On that note, please enjoy some interesting facts for you about some classic authors and works while I go digging for my next great read!
Enjoy!
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Email Melissa WHO SAID IT?QUOTE: "Books are the quietest and most constant of
friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of
counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
HINT: (1834-1926), American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869.
RANDOM TIDBITSEmily Dickinson wrote 1,700 poems. Seven were published in her lifetime.
Charles Dickens always slept facing north. He thought it improved your writing.
Ernest Hemingway rewrote the final page of A Farewell to Arms 39 times.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
First American novel to sell more than a million copies: Uncle Tom's Cabin.
In 1879, while on his honeymoon, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Travels with a Donkey.
*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***I live behind you, but always in sight.
You push me away, but I will cling tight.
You don't dare carry me, nor leave me behind.
I must always be paid, so keep me in mind.
I am useless in death, but am carried by all.
So hurry and pay, it'd do well not to stall.
What am I?
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WHO SAID IT?QUOTE: "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
ANSWER: Charles William Eliot.
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