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The Control of Nature

by John McPhee

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The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America – A True Story of Rescue and Revenge in Revolutionary 1776

by Matthew Pearl (Goodreads Author)

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“Money can buy a house, but not a home; a bed, but not rest; food, but not an appetite; medicine, but not health; information, but not wisdom; thrills, but not joy; associates, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; flattery, but not respect.”
― Pat Williams, What Are You Living For?: Investing Your Life in What Matters Most

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“Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.”
― Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer

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“In retrospect, I am very nearly as sharp as I pretend to be.”
― Lyndsay Faye, Seven for a Secret

tags: humor, retrospect, wit

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“He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity’s engine.”
― Stephen King, It