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“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”
― The Pleasures of Life
― The Pleasures of Life
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
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“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
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John’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,260 books
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48 friends
1,112 books
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137 friends
1,069 books
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16 friends
567 books
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70 friends
691 books
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131 friends
1,345 books
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101 friends
1,208 books
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87 friends
107 books
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129 friends
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Favorite Genres
Book Club, Business, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, and Science
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