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“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
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― Meditations
― Meditations
“You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!”
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Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
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