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The Luminaries

by Eleanor Catton

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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