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    Quick Notes #2

    September 13, 2017

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      Thank you to all of our new subscribers, and all of you who have liked our Facebook page. We have taken a week off from publishing, but have been preparing a couple new long articles that will be published over the next week.

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    Voltaire Quotes

    September 2, 2017

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    "Virtue is debased by self-justification."

    "One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say."

    "He looked on everything as imitation. The most original writers, he said, borrowed one from another. Boyardo has imitated Pulci, and Ariofio Boyardo.The instruction we find...

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    Interesting Facts: The French Revolution

    September 2, 2017

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      The political structure of France from the Late Middle Ages until the French Revolution is known as the Ancien Régime. It refers to the French Monarchy.

      In 1788, facing mounting debts, and the inability to generate funds, Louis XVI called for the convening of the Es...

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    Book: A History of the United States in Five Crashes

    August 29, 2017

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      Scott Nations weaves together the history of the United States, with an eye on both economic history and cultural history, in his book A History of the United States in Five Crashes. 

      The book features an intriguing cast of characters, and many famous names portraye...

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    Baltasar Gracián and the Art of Worldly Wisdom

    August 29, 2017

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      Baltasar Gracián was a writer and philosopher. He was a Jesuit, and was ordained in 1627. He is mostly known today for his wit, especially his collection of maxims known as The Art of Worldly Wisdom. Here is a small selection of the shorter maxims:

    "Not believing othe...

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    Michel de Montaigne Quotes

    August 22, 2017

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    "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

    "Virtue refuses facility for her companion … the easy, gentle, and sloping path that guides the footsteps of a good natural disposition is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny r...

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    Göbekli Tepe

    August 19, 2017

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