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“No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.”
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“The intellectual distinction of a house and its smartness are generally in inverse rather than direct ratio.”
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“Hot punch is a pleasant thing, gentlemen---an extremely pleasant thing under any circumstances---but in that snug old parlour, before the roaring fire, with the wind blowing outside till every timber in the old house creaked again, Tom Smart found it perfectly delightful.”
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“The oddities of charming people exasperate us, but there are few if any charming people who are not, at the same time, odd.”
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“A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.”
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George’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at George’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
297 books
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55 friends
1 book
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21 friends
2 books
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40 friends
2 books
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31 friends
0 books
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112 friends
1 book
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6 friends
0 books
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23 friends
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