Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Bernard De Voto
Born: January 11, 1897
Died: November 13, 1955 (aged 58)
Bio: Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West.
Known for:
- Across the Wide Missouri (1947)
- The year of decision, 1846 (1943)
- The Course of Empire (1952)
- The Western paradox
- The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto