Little Happier: A Story from the Ancient World Reminds Me to Be Grateful for Literature
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
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How Much We Love Literature and How We Crave It
Euripides was one of the greatest writers of ancient greece. Many captives who got safe back to athens are said, after they reached home, to have gone and made their acknowledgments to euripides. This passage reminds me always to be grateful that i have so many books, plays, poems, encyclopaedias, interviews, articles, lyrics and more waiting for me at any time. I never want to take this for granted. And i want to work to make sure that other people have this access too. It's all too easy to take for granted the limitless treasure trove of art that we have access to these days with the internet, public libraries,
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