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  1. Geraldine Brooks _ March

    The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads. And yet I do not think
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  2. Geraldine Brooks _ March

    A short distance away, just outside the town of Harvard, Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands dream lives on in a way he could not have imagined, as an intriguing museum and a place of exceptional beauty.
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  3. Geraldine Brooks _ March

    Dentre meus novos deveres, tinha certeza, finalmente nenhum seria indigno de ser narrado à minha mulher. Por fim, eu me encarregaria de um trabalho cujo objetivo era melhorar a vida, em vez de assistir a seu fim.
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  4. Geraldine Brooks _ March

    Será que existem duas palavras mais intimamente relacionadas que coragem e covardia? Penso que não existe um homem que não queira possuir a primeira, mas tema ser acusado da segunda. Enquanto uma é considerada o apogeu do caráter de um indivíduo, a outra pode ser vista como o seu nadir. E, no entanto, a meu ver, as duas ocupam posições paralelas no círculo da vida, afastadas uma da outra pelo mero grau de um arco.
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  5. Geraldine Brooks _ March

    when every day was tainted by the foul breath of a fear that could not be faced forthrightly, yet could not be ignored.
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  6. Geraldine Brooks _ March

    I never promised I would write the truth. I
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  7. Geraldine Brooks _ March

    How easy it was to give out morsels of wise counsel, and yet how hard to act on them.
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  8. Geraldine Brooks _ March

    The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely.
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  9. Geraldine Brooks _ March

    the man who has been wealthy is dunned more civilly than the fellow who has ever been poor.
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  10. Geraldine Brooks _ March

    You cannot right injustice by injustice.
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  11. Geraldine Brooks _ March

    His radicalism took many forms. A vegetarian, he founded a commune, Fruitlands, so extreme in its Utopianism that members neither wore wool nor used animal manures, as both were considered property of the beasts from which they came. One reason the venture failed in its first winter was that when canker worms got into the apple crop, the nonviolent Fruitlanders refused to take measures to kill them. The Mr. March of Little Women departs from Bronson Alcott's biography in many important respects. Bronson was an educator, not a minister of religion {he is credited with inventing the concept of recess, and also for attempting one of the first racially integrated classrooms}.
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  12. Geraldine Brooks _ March

    If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones who pay to right it?
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