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How About Now: Poems

by Kate Baer (Goodreads Author)

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How To Art: Bringing a Fancy Subject Down to Earth so We Can All Enjoy It

by Kate Bryan

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The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments

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Joy’s Quotes

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

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“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

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