HAVE YOURSELF A NERDLY LITTLE CHRISTMAS: I'm very happy that I got both The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations for Christmas. The Dictionary is the two-volume one, with etymology, and it's just beautiful and wonderful as you can imagine (I'm a little less than fond of their style decisions on page spreads, but that's just me). Bartlett's has already supplied the middle quote on your left, and will no doubt be a wonderful source for the future. I added them to my parents' old World Civilizations textbook (for when you need to tell the difference between Assyrians and Babylonians), and my copy of Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the King James Bible (for those times when you need to know every verse in which the world 'the' appears).
Wonderful.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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