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Heart of the West

by Penelope Williamson

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A Night to Surrender (Spindle Cove, #1)

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The Enneads

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Shadowheart (The Medieval Hearts Series Book 2) by Laura Kinsale

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Elayne did not doubt for a moment that the Raven could teach her all manner of things—the kind of things she had never been allowed to learn under Cara's strictures. Her spirit rose fiercely at the thought, bounding like a hawk from the ...more

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“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

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“We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I hold him in higher esteem than the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. He'll forever be the patron saint of America.”
― George Washington

tags: honor, leadership, peace, united-states, virtue

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