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Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)

by Arthur Ransome

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Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

by Mystie Winckler (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, domesticity, self-help

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Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child

by Anthony Esolen (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: education, about-children, currently-reading

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Kelly’s Quotes

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: atticus-finch, courage

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“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

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