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Chess, Ascham claimed, taught many important lessons: to flatter one’s opponent, to lay traps and to see them laid, to be bold and to restrain one’s tendency to boldness, to appear naïve when in truth one is alert, to see the future many
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“Kronenberg went quietly Nazi, and so it was.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
“I should never have married him. I am on my own.”
― The Last List of Mabel Beaumont
― The Last List of Mabel Beaumont
“It turns out that one of the best predictors of whether a country will experience a civil war is whether it is moving toward or away from democracy.”
― How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
― How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
“We don’t know we’re born, do we?”
― The Last List of Mabel Beaumont
― The Last List of Mabel Beaumont
“You’re the answer to a prayer I never thought to pray—and a threat to all my plans—but I’m not strong enough to walk away. I want you. In whatever way it’s possible to have you, for however long it’s possible to have you. Knowing it’s a mistake, knowing it solves nothing. Knowing that one day we will stand here again, on the brink of goodbye.”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
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