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“To state quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.”
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― The Plague
“I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.”
― Iron Lake
― Iron Lake
“As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.”
― A History of Reading
― A History of Reading
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