If you were god you would tell them to stop clapping. You would tell them that the most useful thing one can do with empty hands is hold on. But you are not a god.
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“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”
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“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
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― Many Inventions
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I know we have an *official* book club but this is for those of us who read at a bit faster pace than one book every few months!
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Nothing makes me happier than reading a great book -- unless it's the chance to talk to other people who've loved that book as well. Elizabeth and I ...more
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