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“Just like practicing the fundamentals of gun safety is critical to protect those around you when handling a firearm, practicing proper self-control when handling your emotions will prevent negligently wounding and destroying the things you love.”

Rereading with Oliver. But first reading was in high school, so I’m excited to see what stands out this time around. Animals overtaking a g”farm and starting a government…what could go wrong?!

Loud 'larums, neighing steeds and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear
As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush, tush, fear boys with bugs!

PETRUCHIO
Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds,
Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?
Have I not heard great ordnance in the field,
And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?
Have I not in a pitchèd battle heard

Come, madam wife, sit by my side,
And let the world slip. We shall ne’er be younger.

“It is not the old poet who is trapped in time for the modern critic who, thinking himself superior to all past ages and thinkers, find his eyes to what the past has to teach him.”

Reading with Oliver as an add on to Y6

This book is so long… the beginning was gripping, but I’m feeling lost in the middle.

“The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
And time to speak it in. You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster.”
-Gonzalo

“Good wombs have born bad sons.” -Miranda

“They understood all too well that the past is ever present, giving shape to our lives. Yet it is not what was, but whatever seems to have been which influences us.”

BANQUO:
… But 'tis strange.
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.

"There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do, if he chuses, and that is, his duty; not by manœuvring and finessing,' but by vigour and resolution. -Mr. Knightly

“God is known in proportion to the extent that He is loved.”

“And if you, O man, want to know who God is, do not ask the wise, the Scribes, the disputes of this age, but look upon Christ and hear His word!”

“Rosalind: Then to have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like it