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Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era – An Archival Biography of Co-Presidency and Women's Rights Advocacy

by Carl Sferrazza Anthony

bookshelves: currently-reading, biographicalish, presidential-political-biographie, 2024

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Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

bookshelves: 1001, currently-reading, 2023

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Agnes Gray

by Anne Brontë

bookshelves: 1001, currently-reading, 2020

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: fallibility, humor

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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