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"I’m not sure why this one has been such a slog. The English is easy and straightforward…it should be a quick read. I just can’t seem to get into it. There’s way too much telling instead of showing, and it makes it really hard to get immersed in the story. Not sure if it’s the structure or all the telling, but something’s just not clicking for me." — 18 hours, 19 min ago
"I’m not sure why this one has been such a slog. The English is easy and straightforward…it should be a quick read. I just can’t seem to get into it. There’s way too much telling instead of showing, and it makes it really hard to get immersed in the story. Not sure if it’s the structure or all the telling, but something’s just not clicking for me." — 18 hours, 19 min ago
“...les hommes n'acceptent le changement que dans la nécessité et ils ne voient la nécessité que dans la crise. (Mémoires,éditions Fayard, 1976, p. 129)”
― Memoirs
― Memoirs
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
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“Some lives are all too brief, while others are a continual struggle. I couldn't help thinking that it was a brutal assessment of people's lives to employ usefulness to society as a yardstick by which to measure their value.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
― Sweet Bean Paste
“The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.”
― Letter to My Daughter
― Letter to My Daughter
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― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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