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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley
I dwell in Possibility—
Emily Dickinson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
The Quoteiac Journal
Percy Shelley Was Always in Mary’s Shadow. He Shouldn’t Be.
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote some of the most precise lines in English Romanticism. He died at 29. His wife wrote Frankenstein. That’s the whole problem.
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Father’s Day Gifts for the Dad Who Reads and Thinks
Philosophy, literature, and serious nonfiction — the categories that dominate the reading lists of people who treat books as tools rather than trophies — are also among the…
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How to Check If a Quote Is Real (Without Trusting the Internet)
Most quotes online are wrong — and confidently so. This is the step-by-step method Quoteiac uses to verify attribution against primary sources, with tools that are mostly free and originals that are mostly digitized.
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