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Imperial Handbook: A Commander's Guide

by Daniel Wallace (Goodreads Author)

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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

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Sherlock Holmes Escape Room Puzzels

by James Hamer-Morton

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Jolien’s Quotes

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance

tags: beauty, happiness, joy

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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life

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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

tags: history, lessons

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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.”
― Aidan Chambers, Dying to Know You

tags: chances, life, turning-points

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