Three classics at LibriVox to download and listen to in your car or to put you asleep at night:
Anne of Green Gables: this time entirely read by AnnieColeman Rothenburg (yup she's married: she has a knit page I sometimes link to).
LeMorte D'Arthur is there too,
as is
Vol one of Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson...Few people read this last one, but it contains many of the
classic quips in English.
- Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.
- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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