Kristen

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Kristen is Currently Reading

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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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Mar 03, 2024 06:44PM

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Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

bookshelves: 1001, currently-reading, 2023

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Mar 18, 2023 08:19AM

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Agnes Gray

by Anne Brontë

bookshelves: 1001, currently-reading, 2020

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Feb 17, 2020 08:25AM

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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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“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

tags: books, education, reading

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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

tags: principia, science

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“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

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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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