No waves of native grain ever stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of North America. Guns, Germs And Steel
“Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: ‘Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.’ That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.” Stranger
...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Emma
Books are the training weights of the mind. The Art of Living
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