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The Single Most Effective Remedy for Despair: Advice from T.H. White’s Merlyn

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The Single Most Effective Remedy for Despair: Advice from T.H. White’s Merlyn
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“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.”

In his wonderful contribution to A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader, Yo-Yo Ma tells children about how books helped him survive his own childhood, listing King Arthur among his three great heroes; as a young boy born in France to Chinese parents, trying to find his mooring as an

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