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“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
“Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
“A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
“You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
Cynthia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cynthia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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432 friends
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32 friends
440 books
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117 friends
4,639 books
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29 friends
161 books
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65 friends
631 books
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389 friends
2 books
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90 friends
20 books
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514 friends
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