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Finding the Church Jesus Built: New Edition

by EZRA HAM

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The Way We Live Now - Wordsworth Classics

by Anthony Trollope

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A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

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Only lower natures forget themselves and become something new. Thus the butterfly has altogether forgotten that it was a caterpillar, perhaps it can so completely forget in turn that it was a butterfly that it can become a fish. Deeper ...more

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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

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