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Lit rec #267: Relive This Classic! “How proud I was a half hour later as I marched ten kids into our kitchen and told them to line up to receive one of Mamma’s delicious oatmeal cookies. Mamma’s attitude puzzled me. She didn’t look pleased and proud as she had with Tom. I caught her giving me a funny look as she held the cookie jar and each kid helped himself to a cookie.” (1972).
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Lit rec #266: Take a Stand. “If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: ‘To fight against Fascism,’ and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: ‘Common decency.” (1938).
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Lit rec #265: “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them” (1602).
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Lit rec #264: Be humbled and get angry. “Cora didn’t know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying” (2016).
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Lit rec #263: Only Surpassed by Shakespeare in his time (1599).
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Lit rec #262: The Incredible Portrait of Valentino Deng and Sudan (2006).
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Lit rec #261: “We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.” (1957)
