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the facility's director, Kim Charon,
The director of the old folks' home is named Charon, the ferryman of Hades. Not gonna pull the wool over MY eyes.
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
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“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
― The Last Continent
― The Last Continent
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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