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The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe

by Jeffrey L. Singman

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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir

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Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

by Lillian Faderman (Goodreads Author)

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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

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“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

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“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

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