For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up.
タグ: reading, weather, night, me

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For even the ordinary well-read person, the French Enlightenment is largely restricted to the three big-name philosophes: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire.
タグ: ordinary, enlightenment, three, person
My wife tells me I should check out 'Downton Abbey', but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature.
タグ: out, wife, me, nature
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.
タグ: swing, sometimes, house, wise
I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.
タグ: find, reading, you, friendship
A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.
タグ: enough, live, job, family
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