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Love Comes Home

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton

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What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past—problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last ...more

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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

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“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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