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""Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction, & somewhere in the terra incognita in between lies a life of discovery."" — Oct 30, 2025 08:20AM
""Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction, & somewhere in the terra incognita in between lies a life of discovery."" — Oct 30, 2025 08:20AM
“She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
― Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
― Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
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“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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