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“I believe that a biography is more effectual than any other kind of literature in turning the mind into a new channel, and causing it to take an interest in the concerns of others rather than its own.
GEORGE HAMILTON-GORDON, 5th EARL of ABERDEEN”
Simon Welfare, Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance

Ethan Reed
“It's not every day that a hippopotamus asks for a fruitcake!
Ethan Reed, Santa Stops at Disneyland (Disney Classic)

Lucy Knisley
“A reminder that, despite our cultural differences, we all sometimes need a little comfort grease.”
Lucy Knisley, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

Jessie Burton
“You cannot have two stories. You can end with only one.”
Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune

Dana Schwartz
“In addition to bearing him thirteen children, Soya was privileged to copy the 1,225-page War and Peace by hand eight times while Tolstoy was editing it, because Tolstoy needed clean drafts to send along to the publisher. She also helped him work on the less famous but equally essential book Resurrection about the many women he cheated on with her. In the final weeks of his life, the increasingly radical Tolstoy left his wife without telling her, refused to see her when she tracked him down, and then died ij a train station.
But at least Soya was comforted by the fact Tolstoy also made sure that they never had any money. At this point he had already freed his serfs, renounced his title, and given away most of his wealth to the poor. Instead of his wife and kids, he left the entirety of his estate and future royalties to the fringe Doukhobor spiritual movement. Tolstoy was selected for the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, but he turned it down because he knew the prize money would complicate things in his life, What could a man with a wife and about a dozen children possibly need money for?”
Dana Schwartz, The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon

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