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“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
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“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
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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
“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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John’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,363 books
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48 friends
564 books
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70 friends
580 books
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130 friends
1,344 books
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101 friends
1,347 books
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347 friends
304 books
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107 friends
884 books
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138 friends
407 books
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44 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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