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Isla’s favorite books

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Come On, Seabiscuit! by Ralph Moody The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy Healing ADD by Daniel G. Amen The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie John Adams by David McCullough Paradise Lost by John Milton The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
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Isla’s Quotes

Oscar Wilde
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
tags: truth
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Oscar Wilde
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde
tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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Thomas A. Edison
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde
tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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