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Barbara’s Quotes

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend
tags: reading, study, willful-ignorance
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“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog
tags: life
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Amos Bronson Alcott
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”
― Amos Bronson Alcott, Tablets
tags: books
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Young-adult, and Women's Fiction


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