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Notes and Sketches of New South Wales: During a residence in the colony from 1839 to 1844

by Louisa Anne Meredith

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Indonesian Phrasebook & Dictionary (Lonely Planet Phrasebooks)

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“If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Care for your body as though you were going to live forever. Care for your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.”
― Augustine of Hippo

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“Dulce bellum inexpertis.”
― Erasmus

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“So I withdrew and thought to myself: 'I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know.”
― Socrates

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“In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another, until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.”
― Richard M. Nixon

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