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Five Novels: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

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A Tale of Two Cities

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Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation

by Ron Wimberly

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“The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.”
― Boris Pasternak

tags: duplicity, health, life-and-living

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“Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”
― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

tags: gossip, jealousy, pettiness

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“It's called "reading" It's how people install new software into their brains.”
― Scott A. Becker

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“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: abilities, song-of-fire-and-ice, tyrion-lannister

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“A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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