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Edward Gibbon
“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon
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“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva
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Biography, Classics, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, political-science, civil-war, military-history, spanish-civil-war, american-civil-war, latin-american-history, and international-relations


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