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The New Yorker Stories

by Ann Beattie

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Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens

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Paul’s Quotes

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, imagination

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“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: children, education, fair-play, injustice, punishment

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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

tags: kindness

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“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: By Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: hypocrisy

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“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading

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