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"Not sure I can finish this book ... actually kind of bummed out that I've already spent time reading it" — Feb 27, 2026 08:54AM
"Not sure I can finish this book ... actually kind of bummed out that I've already spent time reading it" — Feb 27, 2026 08:54AM
But I was shocked for a different reason. The question on my mind was the same—how could this have happened?—but in my case it wasn’t just rhetorical. I really wanted to know how.
“There is no such thing as a perfect leader. We have to learn to lead ourselves.”
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“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
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“But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned.”
― Augustus
― Augustus
“All boys are swines. They snog you and dump you. Or lick your face. Or put bats in your mouth.”
― A Midsummer Tights Dream
― A Midsummer Tights Dream
“What appalling tales we shall have to tell of the strange lands we visited; and of those lands, surely none was stranger or more barbaric than Rome!”
― A Gladiator Dies Only Once
― A Gladiator Dies Only Once
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