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"Sed amor erga rem aeternam et infinitam sola laetitia pascit animum, ipsaque omnis tristitiae est expers; quod valde est desiderandum totisque viribus quaerendum."

"...aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden."

"3 miglia più in là si trova li edifici della vena del rame e dello argento, presso una terra detta Pra Santo Petro e vene di ferro e cose fantastiche. (Ancient Italian)"

"truovasi di miglio i(n) miglio bone osteriee. (Ancient Italian)"

"Subito salse in me due cose: paura e desiderio: paura per la minacciante e scura spelonca, desiderio per vedere se là entro fusse alcuna miracolosa cosa. (Ancient Italian)"

"Qui nil potest sperare, desperate nihil."

"Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges - for a comparable approach to the fall of the ancient polity more generally"

"A great deal of my fiction deals with extreme violence erupting in normal lives."

"Il n'y a pas de mort naturelle: rien de ce qui arrive à l'homme n'est jamais naturel puisque sa présence met le monde en question. Tous les hommes sont mortels: mais pour chaque homme sa mort est un a…"

"Simple Gifts at The Boston Camerata"

"Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history."

"I never heard a thrown ball make that sound before. The ball seemed to accelerate as it came close; an accelerating, impossibly fast pitch that made the noises of hornets and snakes."

"Cyrano de Bergerac at Wikisource"

"A history of the Madden family"

"Pitchfork Media record review of "Ys"

"The one place for art-as-art is the museum of fine art. The reason of the museum or fine art is the preservation of ancient and modern art that cannot be made again and that does not have to be done a…"

"The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age."

"Most significant of all the impediments toward developing group consciousness for women was the absence of a tradition which would reaffirm the independence and autonomy of women at any period in the …"

"When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals"

"George Berkeley at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive"