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Was this book written by AI? Or was the editing just terrible? The first part is so sticky sweet and it has major inconsistencies. Talks about a caramel eclair and then goes to talk about an entire entirely different flavor oozing out. Talks about br
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Patience Miller
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The audio-book narrator is terrible. Mispronounced parka and library and the words are over used. The story is not as engaging as the others. The main character is flat and lacks any sense of humor and the lecture on religion was not needed.
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Entertaining, but I am not sure it is historically accurate.Wish the author had done a bit more research on polo. Most rich players had 2 as it is very hard on them.
Sad to read about the start of the automobile replacing horses. So few people address ...more "
“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.”
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“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
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“The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.”
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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
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“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
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