Quote of the day
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
Morris Bishop

Born: April 15, 1893
Died: November 20, 1973 (aged 80)
Bio: Morris Gilbert Bishop was an American scholar, historian, biographer, essayist, translator, anthologist and versifier.
Known for:
- Petrarch and his world (1963)
- The widening stain (1942)
- A medieval storybook (1970)
- A gallery of eccentrics (1928)
- A Survey of French Literature (1955)