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I haven’t finished this book, but I’m giving an early review to document my ideas. ————————————————
When reading a book about the first empire when you’re living in a contemporary empire, it’s hard not to see comparisons between them.
Perhaps the scar ...more "
war was what the world would say Achilles was born for.
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two — the “race” of the decent man and the “race” of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people.”
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