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Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)
Among the young men their friends and neighbours, the belle jeunesse of the Colony, there were many excellent fellows, several devoted swains, and some two or three who enjoyed the reputation of universal charmers and conquerors. But the home-bred arts and the somewhat boisterous gallantry of those honest young colonists were completely eclipsed by
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John Gray • Seven Types of Atheism
John Stuart Mill, looking back from the end of his life on his youthful sufferings, impossible to draw a line that separates analysis on the one side from feeling on the other and to conclude that only the first side is relevant to thinking.
Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
morality is the key to understanding humanity.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

honestly supposed to be a physiological necessity was a psychological necessity—or so believed.
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
Laura also thought that the law had done a great deal to spoil Henry. It had changed his natural sturdy stupidity into a browbeating indifference to other people’s point of view. He seemed to consider himself briefed by his Creator to turn into ridicule the opinions of those who disagreed with him, and to attribute dishonesty, idiocy, or a base mot
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