Day 1,281: endorse

Once before he had made the mistake of endorsing a candidate he did not know well enough.

Artwork of the day 
Gregory IX Approving the Decretals
Raphael
Date: 1511
Style: High Renaissance
Genre: history painting
Media: fresco
Location: Palazzo Apostolico, Vatican

Word of the day 
endorse: to give support or approval to; to sanction; to transfer or guarantee by signing

Quote of the day
“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.”
― Thomas Mann