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Yvonne Korshak
“Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?” he asked. Yellow hair like hers was rare among the Greeks. Though some people say that Helen of Troy . . .”
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Jung Chang
“A picture of vulnerability, she made the men feel protective and forgiving, happy to use the occasion to help a woman in need. But anyone stepping over a line would see a very different person as County Chief Woo witnessed.”
Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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Frederick Douglass
“They’ll read and sing a sacred song,
And make a prayer both loud and long,
And teach the right and do the wrong,
Hailing htthe brother, sister, throng,
With words of heavenly union.”
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Joseph Conrad
“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.”
Joseph Conrad

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