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“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
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“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
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“Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.”
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“But all historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this the beginning and end of their labour, have impressed on us that the soundest education and training for a life of active politics is the study of History, and that surest and indeed the only method of learning how to bear bravely the vicissitudes of fortune, is to recall the calamities of others.”
― The Histories, Vol 1: Books 1-2
― The Histories, Vol 1: Books 1-2
Lisa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lisa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
415 books
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1,189 books
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393 books
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693 friends
1,212 books
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85 friends
682 books
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71 friends
1,625 books
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151 friends
1,050 books
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73 friends
157 books
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423 friends
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