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Books That Matter: The Art of War

by Andrew R. Wilson

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Sermones Romani (Lingua Latina per se Illustrata)

by Hans Henning Ørberg

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Latin 101: Learning a Classical Language

by Hans-Friedrich Mueller

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Essais (French Edition) by Michel de Montaigne

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Certes, c’est un sujet merveilleusement vain, divers et ondoyant, que l’homme. Il est malaisé d’y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.

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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: fantasy, humor, scifi

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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

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“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
― Kingsley Amis

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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

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“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― Dinah Maria Craik

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