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Yachtmaster Scheme Syllabus & Logbook

by Royal Yachting Association

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Los detectives salvajes

by Roberto Bolaño

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Thomas’s Quotes

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

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“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-satan

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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Literatura en Espanol / Books in Spanish — 1641 members — last activity Jul 23, 2026 02:20PM
Un grupo para discutir los libros escritos en espanol. Todos son bienvenidos!

/r/52book — 985 members — last activity Jan 12, 2022 12:33AM
The goodreads group for everyone that joins /r/52book or anyone else who is participating in a 52 book challenge!

Dresden Files — 1256 members — last activity Jan 31, 2026 11:39AM
A group devoted to The Dresden Files series.

Book Club - Paris — 804 members — last activity Jul 16, 2025 07:34AM
An English language book group located in Paris. Open to both fiction & non-fiction selections. Anyone can join, meetings will be in Paris. ...more

Francophonie — 7229 members — last activity Jul 26, 2026 07:55AM
Rassemblons les lecteurs francophones Que vous soyez de France, de Belgique, de Suisse, du Québec, ou de tout autre pays francophone, ou bien si vous ...more

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