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Ivanhoe

by Walter Scott

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Sep 26, 2026 03:16PM

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Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Sep 22, 2026 11:29AM

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Swords and Deviltry (Lankhmar, 1)

by Fritz Leiber

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May 27, 2024 06:33AM

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

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“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

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“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

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“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

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“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

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