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The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History

by Robert Darnton

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The Nickel Boys

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by Michel de Montaigne

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“Few sons are the equals of their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.” —”
― Daniel Mendelsohn, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

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“Kant’s insistence, in his defense of the French Revolution, that freedom is the precondition for acquiring the maturity for freedom, not a gift to be granted when such maturity is achieved.”
― Noam Chomsky, Chomsky On Anarchism

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“So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
—IV:22”
― Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars

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“Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.”
― Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars

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“Civil society is hardly more than a conspiracy by the rich to guarantee their plunder.”
― Noam Chomsky, Chomsky On Anarchism

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