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All Men Are Brothers

by Shi Nai'an

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Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales

by Bram Stoker

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Alex’s Quotes

“Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.”
― Henry Lawson

tags: humor

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“The die is cast.
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― Suetonius

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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: life

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“Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.”
― Henry Lawson

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“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

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