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“His heart is too full, and no words to release it.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“The secretary of education recently unveiled an initiative for curriculums to place more emphasis on history and language. Within the decade, proficiency in at least three languages will be required of all American schoolchildren by graduation. And along with its other recommendations, the CDC has issued a promulgation that every U.S. citizen “unplug” for at least two hours each day.
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― The Word Exchange
“Have you forgotten what we are to say to ourselves every morning? 'Today I shall meet cruel men, cowards and liars, the envious and the drunken. They will be like that because they do not know what is good from what is bad. This is an evil which has fallen upon them not upon me. They are to be pitied, not...”
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― Till We Have Faces
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― Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City
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― Till We Have Faces
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