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Hammer's German Grammar and Usage

by Martin Durrell

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Last Night in Twisted River

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Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

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I saw the same limitless horizons from the same high bank of the Volga and I know in my blood and bones … that it is only by losing all touch with our native land, only by stamping out all native feeling for it, only so could one do what ...more

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“whose merit is loudly celebrated by the doubtful evidence of his own applause.”
― Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Complete and Unabridged

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“presupposed that pestilences were impossible. They went on doing business, arranged for journeys, and formed views. How should they have given a thought to anything like plague, which rules out any future, cancels journeys, silences the exchange of views. They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“subdue the wild beast, which, according to the lively metaphor of Aristotle, [48] seldom fails to ascend the throne of a despot.”
― Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Complete and Unabridged

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