Anthology Stemma Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new” Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days #JulesVerne

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“Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be—and are ruined.” Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince #NiccolòMachiavelli

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“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.” George Eliot - Middlemarch #GeorgeEliot

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“Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.” Iris Murdoch - The Bell #IrisMurdoch

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“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities #CharlesDickens

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“I would always rather be happy than dignified.” Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre #CharlotteBrontë

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“the rich meadow-grass seemed that morning of a freshness and a greenness unsurpassable. Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading.” Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows #KennethGrahame

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“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov #FyodorDostoyevsky

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” ― Henry David Thoreau - Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace #LeoTolstoy