Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Willard R. Espy
Born: December 11, 1910
Died: February 20, 1999 (aged 88)
Bio: Willard Richardson Espy was a US editor, philologist, writer, poet, and local historian.
Known for:
- The game of words (1971)
- Words to rhyme with (1986)
- Oysterville (1977)
- Say it my way (1980)
- The Wordsworth Rhyming Dictionary (1997)