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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

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For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends.

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“If there was any crying to do, he would do it on his own. He wouldn’t want anyone else to see him like that.”
― Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life

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“In 538 bce he decreed that the temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt at his own expense and that the treasures plundered from the sacred sanctuary by Nebuchadnezzar should be returned to the house of God. The captive Jews (like all other foreign deportees) were free to go home.”
― Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

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“His empire was founded on bloodshed, as all empires invariably are.”
― Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

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“A king waited to see which of his sons showed the most potential for rulership, or displayed characteristics which he himself recognised as desirable.”
― Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

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“Often they were too ashamed to show their faces and knew they would be treated as outcasts. Or their own families had sold them into slavery in the first place.”
― Kathryn Bolkovac, The Whistleblower

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