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The Woman in the Wallpaper

by Lora Jones (Goodreads Author)

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Holly’s Quotes

“I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll

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“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”
― Mark Twain

tags: humorous

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“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.”
― Andrew Lang

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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