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Mao: The Unknown Story

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Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas (Hugo Award Winner - Best Novel) by John Scalzi

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Dahl kept his face very still. Q’eeng had just attempted in the third dialect the traditional rightward schism greeting of “I offer you the bread of life,” but his phrasing and accent had transmuted the statement into “Let us violate cakes ...more

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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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