“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
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“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
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A book group devoted to reading and discussing novellas (one a month). Definition of NOVELLA 1) a story with a compact and pointed plot 2) a work of ...more
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