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“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
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“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
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“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
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“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
The Lord of the Rings
and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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Erica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Erica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
154 books
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67 friends
482 books
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314 friends
214 books
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85 friends
1,075 books
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414 friends
876 books
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146 friends
1,408 books
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255 friends
312 books
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124 friends
1,210 books
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304 friends
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