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Päiväni Morisakin kirjakaupassa

by Satoshi Yagisawa

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Den åländska kvinnans historia: 1700-1950 (Skrifter utgivna av Ålands kulturstiftelse) (Swedish Edition)

by Gyrid Högman

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Stranger Than Fiction: A Book of Literary Lists

by Aubrey Dillon-Malone

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Helene’s Quotes

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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“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

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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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.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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“A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

tags: cats, lesson

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“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.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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This group is for anyone who loves books from different genres. Every month we have group Books of the Month which you can join, reading challenges, a ...more

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Apua suomenkielisten kirjojen lisäämiseen ja muokkaamiseen, sekä Goodreadsin käyttöön. Tässä ryhmässä onnistuu suomenkielisen, tai suomalaisen kirjai ...more

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