The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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- Their passions forge their fetters.
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- Or, if he was aware of it, did not care.
- However, one must not indulge too much in victimhood
- The floor sagged to the sod below
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- A classic screed that few would read
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- Silbury Hill in the Moonlight
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- Ambiguous headlines and the revolt of the masses
- A Poison Tree
- What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue
- Le Port de Brest by Maurice Denis
- His own need to find a way forward in life
- Knowledge more than credentials. Wisdom more tha...
- There is something which has never been seen yet ....
- Self Portrait by Theo Molkenboer
- A dramatic gap year
- Learning That Leads to Action
- Heredity is nothing but stored environment
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- A coalition of the outsiders against the insiders.
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- A shilling life will give you all the facts
- Day is Done by Nick Drake
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- Bass Note 3
- Like a vendor of pots and pans
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- Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny
- The Reaper
- And where do I wind up? In a dungeon!
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- In my family, I’m the first eminent ancestor
- Barge Trip on the Elbe near Dresden
- So rare that it has to be remarked
- Depends on what the meaning of the word "leads" is
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- Sitting around eating honey and barbecued porcupines.
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- Skiitta in the Moonlight by Konstantin Kryzhitsky
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- We never know as much we think we know
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- Unknown title by Janet Ternoff
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- What I am proposing is this. No.
- Poppies, Isles of Shoals by Childe Hassam
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- Charles
- A family man, a management consultant, a book seller and an avid reader. Committed to helping children become avid readers in turn. The great chain of reading always needs renewing.
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