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Charles’s Quotes

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education-knowledge

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The Year of Reading Proust — 1632 members — last activity Mar 29, 2025 09:41AM
2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more

The Smart Set Read — 105 members — last activity Mar 30, 2020 10:34AM
The Smart Set bookclub. A reading group sponsored by http://thesmartset.com

Random Books Monthly Book Club — 140 members — last activity May 15, 2019 02:51AM
A monthly book club where we read a variety of books. Older books, newer books, old favorites, under hyped books, etc. Basically, we just read whate ...more