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“For three months of the year they could not be certain what year they were living in. Because the pope approved the Gregorian calendar, New England rejected it, stubbornly continuing to date the start of the new year to March 25.”
― Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692

“There is a long road yet,' said Gandalf. 'But it is the last road,' said Bilbo.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion...Chance encounters are what keep us going.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“We grow thin in the shadows of Autumn, but chrysanthemums grow fat with dew.”
― Shen Fu, Six Records of a Floating Life