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“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
― Collected Poems
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
― Collected Poems
“. And it especially cannot endure when powerful groups in that society seek at every turn to undermine and destroy its very being. The threats to democracy are not always from enemies abroad. They can come from those within who espouse the language of democracy and use the liberties afforded them by democratic institutions to undermine the substance of democracy. Weimar cautions us to be wary of those people as well. What comes next can be very bad, even worse than imaginable.”
― Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
― Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
Reading the Classics
— 4044 members
— last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
— 16191 members
— last activity 34 minutes ago
The world is made up of two kinds of people: first, those who love classics, and second, those who have not yet read a classic. Be bold and join us as ...more
The Baseball Book Club
— 386 members
— last activity 42 minutes ago
A book club for discussion of baseball related books, including major leagues, minor leagues, Japanese league, Negro leagues, EVERYTHING baseball! PLE ...more
I Love My Humor Dark. No Sugar, No Cream
— 594 members
— last activity Apr 19, 2026 03:26PM
A celebration and conversation of all literature that is of the intelligent dark humor or satirical variety.
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