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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass

Blizzard's Wake by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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“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

tags: philosophy

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“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines

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“The first and greatest commandment is,
Don't let them scare you.”
― Elmer Davis

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