octobers

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908)

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babies

We haven’t all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven’t all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Mark Twain, answering a toast, “To the Babies,” at a banquet in honor of General U.S. Grant (1879)