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And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.
“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
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“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”
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“There are degrees of seriousness," replied Syme. "I have never doubted that you were perfectly sincere in this sense, that you thought what you said well worth saying, that you thought a paradox might wake men up to a neglected truth.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”
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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.
4,599 books
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63 friends
2,005 books
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217 friends
1,015 books
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195 friends
399 books
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36 friends
608 books
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51 friends
204 books
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30 friends
29 books
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18 friends
200 books
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57 friends
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