Died Today - May 19

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"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."

James Boswell
(10/29/1740 – 05/19/1795)
Scottish biographer

"Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right."

William E. Gladstone
(12/29/1809 – 05/19/1898)
British PM (30) (see other British PMs)

"I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade—or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere."

Belva Lockwood
(10/24/1830 – 05/19/1917)
US attorney

"A friend of mine went to the Alpine Club, and said my larger one (portrait) was a conscious effort by you to show how long contact with camels had affected my face! But I explained that it wasn't my face which had been in contact with camels."

T. E. Lawrence
(08/15/1888 – 05/19/1935)
Welsh writer, to Augustus John

"Mystics always hope that science will someday overtake them."

Booth Tarkington
(07/29/1869 – 05/19/1946)
US writer

"Uncle Carl Laemmle
Has a very large faemmle."

Ogden Nash
(08/19/1902 – 05/19/1971)
US poet, on nepotism in Hollywood

"Friendly attacks should begin with faint praise, but be careful not to use adjectives or phrases of which the publisher can make use in advertisements."

Sir John Betjeman
(08/28/1906 – 05/19/1984)
English writer

"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself."

Henry Morgan
(03/31/1915 – 05/19/1994)
US actor

"Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes."

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
(07/28/1929 – 05/19/1994)
US royalty (see other US First Ladies; was married to John F. Kennedy, Aristotle Onassis)

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