1. “educated” starts with an epigraph from virginia woolf: “the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. it expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only the past.” what do you think woolf meant by this? why do you think tara westover chose to begin her memoir this way?

ladies and gentlemen, this message that you will hear is to my family:

dear family, you so much for giving me a possibility to live and i am happy that you took care of me and always telling me that i can do everything that i have in mind, you trusted me and still do it, i don't think i need to ask you for more, i love you.

you so much for listening.

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evertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable.

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