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thedate = datetoday.getDate();
if (thedate < 2) display = "";
else if (thedate < 3) display = "Hans Christian Anderson born the son of a poor shoemaker this day,1805";
else if (thedate < 4) display = "&quot;No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions. He had money as well.&quot; - Margaret Thatcher 1925 -";
else if (thedate < 5) display = "&quot;She has the eyes of Caligula, but the mouth of Marilyn Monroe.&quot; - François Mitterrand 1916-1996 referring to Margaret Thatcher";
else if (thedate < 6) display = "&quot;And all her face was honey to my mouth, and all her body pasture to mine eyes...&quot; - Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837-1909 born this day";
else if (thedate < 7) display = "&quot;Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.&quot;";
else if (thedate < 8) display = "William Wordsworth born this day 1770 in Cumberland.";
else if (thedate < 9) display = "&quot;And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.&quot; - from I wandered lonely as a cloud - William Wordsworth 1770-1850";
else if (thedate < 10) display = "&quot;A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.&quot; - John Keats 1795-1821";
else if (thedate < 11) display = "On this day in 1633, bananas never before seen in England, went on sale in London.";
else if (thedate < 12) display = "&quot;The word ‘orthodoxy’ no longer means being right, it practically means being wrong.&quot; - G.K. Chesterton 1874-1936";
else if (thedate < 13) display = "First man in space, Yuri Gagarin this day, 1961.";
else if (thedate < 14) display = "&quot;You see but you do not observe.&quot; - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930";
else if (thedate < 15) display = "&quot;My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will.&quot; - Walt Whitman. Memories of President Lincoln, shot Good Friday April 14 1865";
else if (thedate < 16) display = "&quot;You, Attali, are a mere chapter, I am the entire volume.&quot; - François Mitterrand 1916-1996";
else if (thedate < 17) display = "&quot;A faithful friend is the medicine of life.&quot; - Ecclesiasticus ch.6 .16";
else if (thedate < 18) display = "&quot;Great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.&quot; - G.K Chesterton 1874-1936) Today is St. Patrick’s Day.";
else if (thedate < 19) display = "&quot;Everything’s got a moral, if you can only find it.&quot; - Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 1832-1898";
else if (thedate < 20) display = "&quot;Procrastination is the thief of time.&quot; - Edward Young 1683-1765";
else if (thedate < 21) display = "&quot;It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.&quot; - William Blackstone 1723-1780";
else if (thedate < 22) display = "&quot;It is better to live on your feet than to die on your knees.&quot; - Dolores Ibarruri";
else if (thedate < 23) display = "&quot;A man cannot make him laugh; but that’s no marvel; he drinks no wine!.&quot; - Shakespeare";
else if (thedate < 24) display = "&quot;One can know a man from his laugh - and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.&quot; - Dostoevsky";
else if (thedate < 25) display = "&quot;Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.&quot; - Helen Hayes";
else if (thedate < 26) display = "&quot;Cheese - milk’s leap toward immortality.&quot; - Clifton Fadiman";
else if (thedate < 27) display = "&quot;I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.&quot; - Mae West";
else if (thedate < 28) display = "&quot;A cucumber should be well sliced and dressed with pepper and vinegar - and then thrown out as good for nothing.&quot; - Samuel Johnson";
else if (thedate < 29) display = "&quot;It is only the first bottle that is expensive.&quot; - French proverb";
else if (thedate < 30) display = "&quot;For a bad night, a mattress of wine.&quot; - Spanish proverb";
else if (thedate < 31) display = "&quot;Brandy is lead in the morning, silver at noon, gold at night.&quot; - German proverb";
else if (thedate < 32) display = "&quot;There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool.&quot; - Danish proverb";
else display = "";
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