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Ron is Currently Reading

Ron Peters is currently reading

Arsène Lupin in the Teeth of the Tiger (Arsène Lupin, #10)

by Maurice Leblanc

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Ron’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to ... the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to ... the State of Rome during the Middle Ages by Edward Gibbon

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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the ...more

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Ron’s Quotes

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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“There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.”
― Mark Hanna

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“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”
― Martin Luther

tags: books

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“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
― Thomas a Kempis

tags: books, literature, peace, reading, rest, words

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