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A Pocketful of Paradise

by Kathleen Kane

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The Enneads

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The King's Falcon (Roundheads and Cavaliers, #3)

by Stella Riley (Goodreads Author)

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The Favourite (Brides of Karadok #6) by Alice Coldbreath

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He nodded. “I know. Shall I tell you a secret?” Jane stared at him, quite tongue-tied by this claim to like the thing about her that vexed her the most. “I should like to feel you all hot and flushed beneath me, giving me all that heat. I ...more

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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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“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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