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He loved the glorious silence a morning brought, knowing that he had no appointments that afternoon and no engagements that evening. He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull
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“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.”
― Brother Odd
― Brother Odd
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Emerson in His Journals
― Emerson in His Journals
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Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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