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Jennifer Welsh
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Jennifer Welsh
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"“It would have been so easy to win just then, to be the good girl, but Vera would not set herself against Eve, no matter how hard her sister tried to make enemies. For Eve, Vera let the silence stand. She was a sister first, a daughter second, and she allowed this day to keep a little of its pain.”" — Jul 22, 2024 05:20AM
"“It would have been so easy to win just then, to be the good girl, but Vera would not set herself against Eve, no matter how hard her sister tried to make enemies. For Eve, Vera let the silence stand. She was a sister first, a daughter second, and she allowed this day to keep a little of its pain.”" — Jul 22, 2024 05:20AM
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
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“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.”
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
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and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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Buddy read - Jennifer and Mark
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