As he worked on his stand-up comedy routine, he found that – after saying what became his trademark line – audiences laughed more and generally reacted more favorably to him.

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“I tell ya, I don’t get no respect. No respect at all.”
-American comedian, actor, and screenwriter Jacob Cohen, born on this day in 1921. He is, of course, better known by his stage name: Rodney Dangerfield.
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One of the more well-known English Romanticists, Shelley is remembered for his combination of lyrical writing and radical ideas: free love, atheism, rebelling against his parents. He was in many ways, the model entitled college kid. But he put his intellect and his writing in service to political and social reform – and to liberation of the oppressed.

An undated, color painting of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Photo of painting: Oxford Image source: The Guardian (news website)

It is the birthday of the poet and author who wrote,
“Joy, once lost, is pain.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on this day in 1792.
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