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“Wash the plate
not because it is dirty,
nor because you are told to wash it,
but because you love the person who will use it next.”
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not because it is dirty,
nor because you are told to wash it,
but because you love the person who will use it next.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
“Body and mind both unemployed, our life becomes a burden, and every object about us loathsome, even the dearest. ... The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of youth. If at any moment, my dear, you catch yourself in idleness, start from it as you would from the precipice of a cliff.”
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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Emma’s 2025 Year in Books
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