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The ethics of Aristotle: The Nichomachean ethics (Penguin classics)

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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

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James Catt said: " one of the great mans best. The effects of guilt and longing are evident in all of Pips actions. "

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“Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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“This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.”
― Thomas Mann

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