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Book cover for Agincourt, 1415: Field of Blood

Agincourt, 1415: Field of Blood by Barry Renfrew

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A few of the lords and monks had read with wonder in ancient texts of the legions of old Rome, of how ten thousand men moved and turned as one on a single command. Such skills had not been seen on the battlefields of Europe for a thousand ...more

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Bogdan’s Quotes

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: joy, poetry, sorrow

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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

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“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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