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just started this account of John Hawkwood, mercenary general and power broker in Italy for decades, a self-made millionaire and landowner, soldier, general, politician, power broker in the most turbulent and violent of times and places. Definately d
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“If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.”
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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Eleonora
― Eleonora
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
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“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
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“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
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