Don't you just love this cover? I know I do...it's absolutely beautiful! The book is Candide by Voltaire. I read it for a history project and it was one of the most boring books I have ever read. But it's pretty and it has colored illustrations. So I'm keeping it. I don't really have much to write about other than that it is pretty. Perhaps I'll find the time to read it again. Maybe I'll like it better the second time.“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?” -Candide by Voltaire
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