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“
To be great, be whole; exclude
Nothing, exaggerate nothing that is you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
The whole moon gleams in every pool,
Because it rides so high.
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― Poemas de Fernando Pessoa
― Poemas de Fernando Pessoa
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On arriving to take possession, the English complained that the former occupants had taken everything with them, including what was nailed down, ‘the very fflooers, the Windowes and the Dores’, leaving Tangier ‘very little better than a ruin of walls and full of spoile, scarsity and want as to all such materials and utensils as could have given assistance to English souldiers’.
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― Queen Catherine's Court: Power and Rebellion in Restoration England
― Queen Catherine's Court: Power and Rebellion in Restoration England
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