“Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.”
— Charles Lamb, book Essays of Elia
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Essays of Elia (1823)
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