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101 voters
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement.
“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present”
― Academic Freedom: An Essay in Definition
― Academic Freedom: An Essay in Definition
“Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.”
― Academic Freedom: An Essay in Definition
― Academic Freedom: An Essay in Definition
“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
Jon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
444 books
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76 friends
130 books
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66 books
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467 books
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44 books
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158 books
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Classics, Cookbooks, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, Horror, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Psychology, Suspense, and Thriller
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