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I'm reading this bit by bit on dailylit.com. It's a fairly painless way to read long classics when you don't really have time to do it. A couple of years ago I read Gulliver's Travels that way, too, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I had never completely r
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I love Anne Perry's Victorian mystery series, as well as her newer WWI series. Great period detail and wonderful characters. I am currently working my way through the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series for the second time.
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“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Mrs. Goose, Her Book
― Mrs. Goose, Her Book
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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Memoirs and Biographies We Love
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A place to share memoirs, biographies, autobiographies (and maybe even fiction-based-in-reality) that you have enjoyed!
The Great Books Corner
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Which Great Books have you read? This is the corner stop on the Goodreads trail to discuss the Great Books you have read and want to read. This is als ...more
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