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Mike is Currently Reading

Mike is currently reading

Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

by John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2000-2009, science-fiction

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Mike’s Quotes

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

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“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

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“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

tags: morning, waking-up

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