Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Charles Lever
Born: August 31, 1806
Died: June 1, 1872 (aged 65)
Bio: Charles James Lever was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation.
Known for:
- The knight of Gwynne (1809)
- The confessions of Harry Lorrequer (1839)
- Charles O'Malley (1840)
- Roland Cashel (1848)
- The fortunes of Glencore (1857)