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The Daily Henry David Thoreau - A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season by Henry Thoreau; Laura Dassow Walls (Foreword by, Editor)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: A\Year of Quotes Ser.
"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each." Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every passing moment with the universal globe. Henry David Thorea ...Show more
The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes by Devoney Looser (Foreword by, Editor); Jane Austen
Category: Gifts | Series: Year of Quotes
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit and wisdom from her novels deserve to be better known, ...Show more
The Daily Thomas Paine - A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age by Thomas Paine; Edward G. Gray (Editor, Foreword by)
Category: Gifts | Series: A\Year of Quotes Ser.
Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets Common Sense and The American Crisis, Paine codified both colonial outrage and the intellectual justification for inde ...Show more
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