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Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
by Gretchen Rubin (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
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| Falls squarely in the priv lit category. While an easy life certainly doesn't preclude her ability to offer insight, this book doesn't really explore philosophy (beyond frequent quotes) or science (unlike the bit of research present in her first book...more | |
“It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.”
― Winston Churchill
― Winston Churchill
“If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, 'Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?”
― James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
― James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
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