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Effi Briest

by Theodor Fontane

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard

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“What is the Christian understanding of work?. . . [It] is that work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties . . . the medium in which he offers himself to God.”
― Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work

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“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“The difference between accomplished birders and beginning birders is that accomplished birders have misidentified thousands of birds and beginning birders relatively few.”
― Lisa White, Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips from North America's Top Birders

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“Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think?”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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