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“Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.”
― Winter's Bone
― Winter's Bone
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“He alone is a man who keeps his word:
Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.”
― Zafarnama
Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.”
― Zafarnama
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying of a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
Erin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Erin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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91 friends
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119 friends
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