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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
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but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
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“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
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“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.”
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“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
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Jackie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jackie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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317 friends
372 books
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239 books
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625 books
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481 books
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13 books
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130 friends
408 books
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545 friends
17 books
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