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The Reading Countess The Reading Countess said: " Without a doubt this is the most thought provoking book I’ve read (listened?) to this year. Hard stop.

The Sum of Us is a well-written journey through US history’s complicated past, present and future written by a Black attorney/economist. She looks a
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Oscar Wilde
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
Oscar Wilde

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges

Mark Twain
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
Mark Twain

Douglas Adams
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Mahatma Gandhi
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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