Anna Rice Cooke (1853–1934) was a patron of the arts and the founder of the Honolulu Museum of Art.
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“Monday’s child is fair in face,
Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
Wednesday’s child is full of woe,
Thursday’s child has far to go,
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child works hard for its living;
And a child that is born on a Christmas day,
Is fair and wise, good and gay.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Traditions, Legends, Superstitions, and Sketches of Devonshire, vol. 2, ed. Anna E.K.S. Bray (1838)
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—Philip Roth (b. 1933)
“Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.”
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