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Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)

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Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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Mar 13, 2026 07:16PM

For that matter, few ideas are as crazy as my favorite thing, running. It’s hard. It’s painful. It’s risky. The rewards are few and far from guaranteed. When you run around an oval track, or down an empty road, you have no real destination. ...more

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Abby’s Quotes

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: empathy, honesty, self-awareness

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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“Plato said that “the greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately”!”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Stop Worrying & Start Living

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“In Stalin’s paranoid police state, the safest way to ensure survival was to denounce someone else.”
― Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

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