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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent series of lessons that people from all walk's of life can enjoy and learn from.<br/><br/>Very insightful and thought provoking. Very easy read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Balthasar Gracian was a jesuit monk and he had many wise things to say.  I read this almost 6 years ago.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The art of improving yourself.  In short, &quot;be a saint&quot;.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book can not be over-estimated. I use this book the way others refer to the bible. (I DO also read the Bible, The Qu'ran and other religous books as well) However, the advice in this little book is invaluable. There are days when I am troubled and I will meditate on the problem, run my thumb ov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49756695">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success is valued for its timeless insights on how to make one's way in the world. Written in the seventeenth century by a Spanish Jesuit scholar, these teachings are strikingly modern in tone and address universal concerns such as friendship, morality, managing emotions, and effective leadership. <em>The Art of Worldly Wisdom </em>is for anyone seeking to combine ethical behavior with worldly success. This edition of <em>The Art of Worldly Wisdom </em>includes an informative introduction by Willis Barnstone, Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. Barnstone, a noted translator, critic, and poet, explores Gracián's background and places him within his historical and literary context.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Packed full of beautiful prose, and just as applicable 400 years after it was written. It's one of many I would have loved to see in high school literature classes. Wonderful life instruction, presented from an interesting cultural viewpoint.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the great books of wisdom, dispensed in brief paragraphs with headings like &quot;better to be intensive than extensive,&quot; and &quot;reserve is the seal of talent.&quot;  Gracian might best be described as an honorable politician; he advocates dealing with the world with rectitude...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31044898">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Timeless. Useful even in today's modern world.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Currently Situated in Sam's Bathroom.  Written in the 1600's, is a Great Book listing about 300 ideals of a worldly person that suprisingly still apply today.  Many pearls of wisdom to be gleaned from that book. :)   ]]></body>
    
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