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Reading for the 13th time
read in January 2016
Prudence Bates was twenty-nine, an age that is often rather desperate for a woman who has not yet married. Jane Cleveland was forty-one, an age that may bring with it compensations unsuspected by the anxious woman of twenty-nine.
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
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Classics and the Western Canon
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