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Flashlight

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Cold Comfort Farm

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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett

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My favorite remedy, though, is for low spirits. “Often we are missing the right kind of happiness, and if we don’t have any wine yet, we will be very content when we do get wine.”

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The Wangs vs. the World

by Jade Chang

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“Anger,
The spring of all life's horror.

- Medea”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

tags: anger, excess, horror, immoderation

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“Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”
― Euripedes

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