Day 1,120: deign

Mr. Clinton did not deign to reply.

Artwork of the day 
Portrait of Dewitt Clinton
Rembrandt Peale
Style: Neoclassicism
Genre: portrait

Word of the day 
deign: to agree to do something although you consider yourself too important to have to do it

Quote of the day
“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo