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The Big Finish

by Brooke Fossey (Goodreads Author)

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Brimstone (Fae & Alchemy, #2)

by Callie Hart (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for A Heart of Blood and Ashes (A Gathering of Dragons, #1)

A Heart of Blood and Ashes (A Gathering of Dragons, #1) by Milla Vane

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“There are enemies, and there are monsters. Always slay the monsters first, because enemies may one day become allies—but monsters never will.”

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“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: world-war-i, world-war-one

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“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
― Bill Gates

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“For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.”
― Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

tags: french-revolution, monarchy, world-war-i, world-war-ii

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“Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.”
― Linda Howard, After the Night

tags: romance, sobriquet

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