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The Rise And Fall Of The Hawaiian Kingdom (A Pictorial History)

by Richard A. Wisniewski

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The Analects

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“They make you as they are because it’s the only thing they know and then they tell you it’s your fault because they are jealous you are better than them. But the truth is it’s never your fault. It’s their fault”
― Maria Karvouni, You Are Always Innocent

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“Every story has a different genre,
Just like sky changes it's colour.”
― Yamini Tanwar, Home To Soul: Collection Of Nature Poetry

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, honesty-integrity-relationship, inspirational, life, life-quotes, philosophy-quotes, quote-investigator

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“Just like a tree,
we carry a perfect glare
but deep down our roots lie in vain.”
― Yamini Tanwar, Home To Soul: Collection Of Nature Poetry

tags: inspirational, life-philosophy, life-quotes, thoughts-on-life

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“The streets of Copenhagen are filled with people who oddly look not like Prince Hamlet and Ophelia, and that strikes the cord of bizarre sadness within your heart, and drives you into the weirdly unsettled state.”
― Della Swanholm

tags: della-swanholm, hamlet, individuality, life, love, memory, philosophy, prince, romantic, sadness-quotes

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“Most men are like children, or rather the teenagers -- they don’t trust the women who are cordial and interesting and funny and easygoing, they are rather in for the insurmountable obstacles of some women, and there they find their happiness and their twisted reward.”
― Della Swanholm

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