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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2014 by R. J. Palacio
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v3.1
To Papi,
my first teacher
A teacher affects eternity;
he can never tell where his influence stops.
—Henry Adams
Precepts or maxims are of great weight;
and a few useful ones at hand do more
toward a happy life than whole volumes
that we know not where to find.
—Seneca
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Precepts
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Acknowledgments
Contributors of Original Precepts, Artwork, and Lettering
PRECEPTS
My father’s name was Thomas Browne. And his father’s name was Thomas Browne. That’s why my name is Thomas Browne. I didn’t know until I was a college senior that there was a far more illustrious Thomas Browne, who had lived in England in the seventeenth century. Sir Thomas Browne was a gifted author, a student of the natural world, a scientist, a scholar, and an outspoken supporter of tolerance at a time when intolerance was the norm. In short, I couldn’t have asked for a better namesake.
I started reading a lot of Sir Thomas Browne’s works in college, including Enquiries into Very many received Tenets, and commonly presumed Truths, a book that set out to debunk the prevalent false beliefs of the day, and Religio Medici, a work that contained a number of religious inquiries that were considered highly unorthodox at the time. It was while reading the latter that I came across this wonderful line:
We carry within us the wonders we seek around us.
The beauty and power of that line stopped me cold, for some reason. Maybe it was exactly what I needed to hear at that pa ............

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