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The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

by Jeffrey Rosen

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Jun 04, 2025 09:01AM

“A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.”
― Jane Smiley

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