Jan Mc

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Jan Mc is Currently Reading

Jan Mc is currently reading

Games in Londinium (Londinium #2)

by John Drake (Goodreads Author)

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Pony Confidential

by Christina Lynch (Goodreads Author)

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How to Listen to and Understand Great Music

by Robert Greenberg

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Jan Mc’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns

The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

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He knew when to let well alone, a knowledge which is more precious than a knowledge of geography.

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Jan Mc’s Quotes

“When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.”
― Augustus William Hare Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers: First Series

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“The darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is God.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“History is a very tricky thing. To begin with, you can't get it mixed up with the past. The past actually happened, but history is only what someone wrote down.”
― A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture: An American Commentary

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“Knowledge is our gift.
Understanding is our blessing.
Wisdom is our fortune.
Enlightenment is our reward.

Art is our gift.
Science is our blessing.
Technology is our fortune.
God is our reward.

Time is our gift.
Light is our blessing.
Fate is our fortune.
Nature is our reward.

Land is our gift.
Water is our blessing.
Air is our fortune.
Life is our reward.

Mothers are our gift.
Youth are our blessing.
Elders are our fortune.
Children are our reward.

The past is our gift.
The present is our blessing.
The future is our fortune.
Eternity is our reward.

The mind is our gift.
The heart is our blessing.
The body is our fortune.
The soul is our reward.

Faith is our gift.
Joy is our blessing.
Virtue is our fortune.
Love is our reward.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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