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"Set in 2025. Written in 1993. I read it 15 years ago, but it didn’t seem as "current." The government is basically owned by the wealthy. Many are homeless. And now, the government is taking away the minimum wage to be able to "give the homeless jobs" and pay them whatever they want. Sounds like the next scheme of the current powers that be in the real 2025. * sigh *" — Sep 07, 2025 09:09PM
"Set in 2025. Written in 1993. I read it 15 years ago, but it didn’t seem as "current." The government is basically owned by the wealthy. Many are homeless. And now, the government is taking away the minimum wage to be able to "give the homeless jobs" and pay them whatever they want. Sounds like the next scheme of the current powers that be in the real 2025. * sigh *" — Sep 07, 2025 09:09PM
Jane Eyre
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I took a book—some Arabian tales; I sat down and endeavoured to read. I could make no sense of the subject; my own thoughts swam always between me and the page I had usually found fascinating.
I know this feeling well.
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
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“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
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“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”
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Time Travel
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