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“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
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― Stoner
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― Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations
― Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations
“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
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― Anne of Green Gables
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― Old Filth
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