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Annabelle

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The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

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She had to content herself with the gaze of admiration which she left in her wake along the pavement; but she was used to the homage of the streets and her vanity craved a choicer fare.

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Annabelle’s Quotes

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
― William James

tags: wisdom

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“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: books, censorship, reading

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“The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why

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“When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.”
― Loren Eiseley

tags: science

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