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“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome super-abundance of that sort of time which is not money.”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Fred’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Fred’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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