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Happy 168th birthday, Theodore Roosevelt, born October 27, 1858. 🎂 The line everyone shares, checked to the speech: "if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." Citizenship in a Republic, Paris, April 23, 1910. quoteiac.com/products/man-in…
“I love my life’s dark hours in which my senses quicken and grow deep.”
Rilke wrote the poem. Jessie Lemont gave us these English words in 1918.
Today’s GQ discussion of books notes that more translators are receiving cover credit.
The second name matters.
Sunday plan: no one's calendar but your own.
"Solitude is like a rain
That from the sea at dusk begins to rise;"
— Rilke, tr. Jessie Lemont (1918)
A real sample, not a mockup:
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“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.”
Marcus Aurelius wrote that reminder to himself.
On Make a Difference Day, the distinction matters.
Good intentions are easy to announce. The work happens afterward.
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The United Nations turns 81 today.
H. G. Wells wrote this in The Outline of History in 1920, 25 years before it existed:
"Our true nationality is mankind."
Real sample on an iPhone 16 Pro Max.
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Rilke died 100 years ago this December, and a centenary festival opens today in Switzerland.
His 1918 English translator was Jessie Lemont. A one-letter typo has been turning her into "Lamont" online ever since.
How we caught it:
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Three Rilke lines, checked to the source and printed. These are our founders’ samples, not mockups, and that's the Circles phone case too.
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Congrats, @PeterSokolowski! 20 years of Word of the Day, 7,305 episodes, and not one missed.
Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary defined a lexicographer as "a harmless drudge."
We'd call it a streak. Hats off.
Today marks Word of the Day podcast episode # 7,305.
That’s 20 years.
Our editor-at-large @PeterSokolowski hasn’t missed a day.
In TWENTY years.
Please clap.
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Good find, QI.
Ambrose Bierce defined the other side 24 years earlier:
"BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
The Devil's Dictionary (1911). Verified word for word.
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Everybody Talks, Nobody Listens. Good Listeners Are as Rare as White Crows
Is this quotation genuinely by activist and lecturer Helen Keller, or is it apocryphal?
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ALT Illustration of a white crow. The image has been copped and resized.
"Well done is better than well said."
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1737). Checked to the source.
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Good news in the book industry:
-Sales of print books have increased nearly 25% from a decade ago
-Number of independent bookstores in the US has increased 75% since 2020
-Global book market is expected to grow 5% annually for the next several years
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Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems.
Only ten were published during her lifetime, anonymously.
Tomorrow is National Day on Writing.
Her manuscripts remind us that a page can matter long before it finds an audience.
#WhyIWrite
"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."
Jefferson's 1825 advice was to count ten, or a hundred if very angry. Twain got it down to four.
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Ch. X (1894). Checked to the source.
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Space jellyfish alert!
The Bandwagon-5 rocket launch from Florida on October 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM EDT could produce a space jellyfish. This occurs when a rocket and its expanding exhaust plumes are illuminated by the sun and observers are in local darkness.
NOTE: This rare and unique trajectory is modeled as a best-guess estimate. This prediction may be inaccurate for distant viewers.
The rocket will enter sunlight 02m55s after launch.
Viewing locations, peak elevation while rocket is lit by the sun, and approximate viewing direction:
🟢 Nassau • 66° • NE
🟢 Jacksonville • 28° • SE
🟢 Havana • 25° • ENE
🟢 Charlotte • 14° • SSE
🟡 Virginia Beach • 13° • S
🟡 Kingston • 30° • NE
🟡 Nashville • 7° • SE
🔴 Panama City • 8° • NNE
🔴 Columbus, OH • 5° • SSE
🔴 Managua • 5° • NE
🔴 New Orleans • 9° • ESE
🔴 Mérida • 8° • ENE
🔴 New York • 6° • S
🔴 Providenciales • 77° • NE
See a detailed prediction for your location: jellyfish.johnkrausphotos.co…
Information as of 2026-10-17 20:04 UTC. Weather pending. Forecast does not model cloud cover or atmospheric conditions.
Often credited to Mark Twain. Blaise Pascal wrote it in 1656:
"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter."
Provincial Letters, Letter XVI (tr. Thomas M'Crie). Verified word for word.
What line were you sure was Twain's?
Ted Lasso S4E6: Michelle hands Ted a Mark Twain line.
"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."
No book. No speech. No notebook. Twain didn't write it. Here's where it actually comes from:
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Saturday plan: get a little lost.
"Not till we are lost…do we begin to find ourselves…"
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, "The Village" (1854). Verified to its source.
Where do you go to get lost on purpose?
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Happy 172nd birthday, Oscar Wilde.
You never wrote “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
The earliest documented version appeared online in 1999, nearly a century after your death.
Your actual words were sharper.
We checked.
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