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John Roberts

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John is Currently Reading

John Roberts is currently reading

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

bookshelves: currently-reading, literary-fiction, owned

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Jun 24, 2026 12:26PM

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The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)

by Peter Brown

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— Jun 22, 2026 02:25PM

Jun 22, 2026 10:24AM

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Hannah Coulter

by Wendell Berry

bookshelves: currently-reading, literary-fiction, owned, politics-and-political-philosophy, religion

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John’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Simón Bolívar (The Liberator) Patriot, Warrior, Statesman, Father of Five Nations, a Sketch of His Life and His Work

Simón Bolívar (The Liberator) Patriot, Warrior, Statesman, Father of Five Nations, a Sketch of His Life and His Work by Guillermo A. Sherwell

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Summarizing the causes of the fall of Venezuela, he attributed it in the first place to the nature of its constitution; secondly, to the discouragement of the government and people; thirdly, to the opposition to the establishment of a ...more

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John’s Quotes

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

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“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: evil, future-inspirational

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