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― Clarence Darrow for the Defense
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― Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writings on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill & My Mother
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― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Giulianzo's Plato’s Academy of Florence and the Confraternity of the Magi
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