“A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little— but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1837 1) (Vol. 49) Three Extracts from the Diary of a Week.
The Monthly Magazine

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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